These issues in 2003 had the greatest difference between Democrats and
Republicans. All the votes are sorted from those with the greatest difference to
those with the lowest, as measured by the Rice's index of party dissimilarity
("Rice" column). The percentage and color hue indicate the proportion of
senators in a particular bloc that voted Yea.

REP

DEM

A

B

C

D

E

OUT

dif

MI

Rice

0.9%

1.0%

11.5%

94.5%

99.5%

48:50

0.801

0.974

(Dodd Amdt. No. 419 )

To increase the budget authority for Federal "FIRE Act" grants and to express the sense of the Senate that from the total funding provided for Federal "FIRE Act" grants, not less than $1,000,000,000 per year will be used for grants to local governments to hire additional firefighters and not less that $750,000,000 per year for the purchase of firefighting equipment and training, and to provide for a reduction in the deficit.

Amendment Rejected

0.9%

1.0%

11.5%

94.5%

99.5%

48:51

0.840

0.974

(Daschle Amdt. No, 361 )

To fulfill the U.S. commitment to provide health care to American Indians and Alaska Natives.

Amendment Rejected

0.9%

1.0%

11.5%

94.5%

99.5%

48:51

0.840

0.974

(Dodd Amdt. No. 415 )

To increase funding for after-school programs to the levels promised by the No Child Left Behind Act to serve 1.6 million more children in FY 2004 and to increase funding for Head Start to serve 80 percent of eligible 3 and 4 year olds and increase the number of infants and toddlers served and for deficit reduction.

Amendment Rejected

0.9%

1.0%

11.5%

94.5%

99.5%

48:51

0.840

0.974

(Kennedy Amdt. No. 315 )

To ensure that the budget includes funds to extend temporary unemployment compensation benefits, provides benefits to the million long-term unemployed Americans, and provides benefits to part-time and low-wage workers.

To provide for a significant environmental review process associated with the development of Indian energy projects and to establish duties of the federal government to Indian tribes in implementing an energy development program, and for other purposes.

Motion to Table Agreed to

99.1%

99.0%

88.5%

5.5%

0.5%

52:47

0.840

0.974

(Motion To Table Daschle Amdt. No. 834 )

To express the sense of the Senate that Social Security cost-of-living adjustments should not be reduced.

Motion to Table Agreed to

99.1%

99.0%

88.5%

5.5%

0.5%

52:47

0.840

0.974

(Motion to Table Landrieu Amdt. No. 452 )

To appropriate $1, 047,000,000 for procurement for the National Guard and Reserves.

To raise the 2003 caps by $3.5 billion for homeland security funding through a Domestic Defense Fund at the Homeland Security's Office of Domestic Preparedness in FY 2003 and to reduce the size of newly proposed tax cuts in the amount of $7 billion to pay for this amendment and for the cost of previously passed homeland security funding.

Amendment Rejected

0.9%

1.0%

11.5%

94.5%

99.5%

48:52

0.899

0.974

(Durbin Amdt. No. 676 )

To provide alternate terms for the United States participation in the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

(Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Nomination of Carolyn B. Kuhl, of California, to be U.S. Circuit Judge )

Carolyn B. Kuhl, of California, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit.

Cloture Motion Rejected

99.4%

99.0%

89.1%

19.9%

0.8%

53:43

0.715

0.958

(Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Nomination of Janice R. Brown, of California, to be U.S. Circuit Judge )

Janice R. Brown, of California, to be United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Cloture Motion Rejected

99.4%

99.0%

89.1%

19.9%

0.8%

53:43

0.715

0.958

(Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Nomination of Priscilla Richman Owen, of Texas, to be U.S. Circuit Judge )

Priscilla Richman Owen, of Texas, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, vice William L. Garwood, retired.

Cloture Motion Rejected

0.6%

1.0%

10.9%

80.1%

99.2%

47:51

0.763

0.958

(Leahy Amdt. No. 318 )

To increase the level of funding in fiscal year 2004 for first responders by $3,000,000,000 (to a total of $6,500,000,000) to support their efforts to protect homeland security and prevent and respond to acts of terrorism, and to reduce tax reductions for taxpayers with annual incomes greater then $300,000, and to provide an additional $3,000,000,000 for deficit reduction.

Amendment Rejected

99.4%

99.0%

89.1%

19.9%

0.8%

53:42

0.697

0.958

(Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Nomination of Priscilla Richman Owen, of Texas, to be U.S. Circuit Judge )

Priscilla Richman Owen, of Texas, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit.

Cloture Motion Rejected

99.4%

99.0%

89.1%

19.9%

0.8%

53:44

0.738

0.958

(Motion To Invoke Cloture On The Nomination Of William H. Pryor, Jr., Of Alabama, To Be U.S. Circuit Judge )

William H. Pryor, Jr., of Alabama, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Eleventh Circuit, vice Emmett Ripley Cox, retired.

To improve access to higher education for middle-income families by making resources available to expand the Hope and Lifetime Learning Scholarship Credits and for lower-income families by making resources available to increase the maximum Pell Grant to $4500 and to provide an equal amount for deficit reduction by eliminating the 10 percent dividend tax exclusion for amounts above $500 and eliminating acceleration of the 38.6 percent income tax rate education.

Amendment Rejected

1.8%

1.0%

32.7%

94.5%

99.6%

49:50

0.795

0.956

(Motion to Waive Bayh Amdt. No. 426 )

To express the sense of the Senate on low income programs and the income tax on certain Social Security benefits.

Motion Rejected

1.8%

1.0%

32.7%

94.5%

99.6%

49:51

0.851

0.956

(Dorgan Amdt. No. 385 )

To increase FY 2004 funding for the discretionary programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs by $1,019,000,000, so it matches the level proposed by a coalition of veterans groups in the Independent Budget; to decrease the deficit by a similar amount; and to use the unreconciled tax cut to pay for it.

Amendment Rejected

96.4%

99.0%

88.5%

5.4%

0.4%

51:45

0.726

0.956

(Motion To Table Corzine Amdt. No. 1275 )

To establish the National Commission on the Development and Use of Intelligence Related to Iraq.

Motion to Table Agreed to

96.4%

99.0%

88.5%

5.4%

0.4%

51:45

0.726

0.956

(Motion To Table The Motion To Proceed To The Consideration of S. 1162 )

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to accelerate the increase in the refundability of the child tax credit, and for other purposes.

Motion to Table Agreed to

96.4%

99.0%

88.5%

5.4%

0.4%

51:46

0.732

0.956

(Motion to Adjourn )

?

Motion to Adjourn Agreed to

3.7%

1.0%

11.5%

94.5%

99.5%

49:50

0.792

0.955

(Clinton Amdt. No. 418 )

To raise the caps and provide direct first responder funding to localities and for high threat areas through the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Domestic Preparedness in 2003 and 2004, to restore funding for the Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement Act ("Byrne Grant" program) and the Local Law Enforcement Block Grant Program, and to reduce the deficit, by reducing the size of newly proposed tax cuts.

Amendment Rejected

2.2%

1.3%

27.6%

94.5%

99.5%

49:50

0.791

0.955

(Clinton Amdt. No. 424 )

To restore funding for vocational education to the fiscal year 2003 level for fiscal years 2004 through 2013.

Amendment Rejected

2.2%

1.3%

27.6%

94.5%

99.5%

49:51

0.846

0.955

(Motion To Waive C.B.A. Jeffords Amdt. No. 587 )

To accelerate the elimination of the marriage penalty in the earned income credit.

Motion Rejected

2.2%

1.3%

27.6%

94.5%

99.5%

49:51

0.846

0.955

(Motion to Waive C.B.A. re: Schumer Amdt. No. 557 )

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make higher education more affordable.

Motion Rejected

2.2%

1.3%

27.6%

94.5%

99.5%

****

49:49

0.755

0.955

(Harkin Amdt. No. 396 )

To help rural health care providers and hospitals receive a fair reimbursement for services under Medicare by reducing tax cuts to the wealthiest income brackets.

Amendment Rejected

97.0%

97.3%

88.5%

5.5%

0.5%

51:46

0.751

0.955

(Motion to Table Byrd Amdt. No. 508 )

To protect the prerogativs of the Congress in the allocation of homeland security funding.

Motion to Table Agreed to

97.0%

97.3%

88.5%

5.5%

0.5%

51:46

0.751

0.955

(Motion to Table Schumer Amdt. No. 514 )

To increase the appropriation for the Office for Domestic Preparedness, Department of Homeland Security, by $2,330,000,000.

Motion to Table Agreed to

3.7%

1.0%

11.7%

94.5%

99.5%

49:50

0.790

0.955

(Motion To Waive C.B.A. Cantwell Amdt. No. 577 )

To permanently extend and modify the research and experimentation tax credit and strike the partial exclusion of dividends provision.

Motion Rejected

98.0%

98.4%

71.5%

5.5%

0.5%

51:45

0.706

0.955

(Motion To Table Byrd AMDT. No. 1367 )

Full filling Homeland Security Promises.

Motion to Table Agreed to

2.0%

1.6%

28.5%

94.5%

99.5%

49:50

0.790

0.955

(Bingaman Amdt No. 417 )

To increase Mandatory Child Care Spending by $4.6 billion over five years and $9.1 billion over ten years by reducing the tax cut.

Amendment Rejected

0.9%

1.0%

10.3%

92.7%

97.4%

47:53

0.847

0.954

(Motion to Waive C.B.A. Re: Baucus Amdt. No. 570 )

To ensure that the limit on refundability shall not apply to the additional $400 child credit for 2003, to make the dividend exclusion effective for taxable years beginning in 2003, and to eliminate the increase in the dividend exclusion from 10 percent to 20 percent of dividends over $500.

Motion Rejected

0.9%

0.9%

10.9%

94.2%

97.2%

47:52

0.840

0.954

(Motion to Waive C.B.A. re: Murray Amdt. No. 564 )

To provide temporary State fiscal relief.

Motion Rejected

0.9%

1.0%

11.5%

93.9%

97.2%

47:52

0.840

0.954

(Baucus Amdt. No. 833 )

To reduce the amount by which the statutory limit on the public debt is increased.

Amendment Rejected

0.9%

1.0%

11.4%

94.5%

97.2%

47:51

0.787

0.954

(Kerry Amdt. No. 281 )

To increase the budget allocation for programs to combat the global HIV/AIDS epidemic and to reduce the deficit.

Amendment Rejected

1.5%

1.0%

32.0%

80.1%

99.3%

48:52

0.806

0.940

(Kennedy Amdt. No. 545 )

To eliminate the dividend and upper bracket tax cuts, which primarily benefit the wealthy, to provide the additional funds necessary for an adequate medicare prescription drug benefit, including assuring that the benefit is comprehensive, with no gaps or excessive cost-sharing, covers all medicare beneficiaries, provides special help for beneficiaries with low income, and does not undermine employer retirement coverage.

Amendment Rejected

97.3%

97.5%

88.8%

19.6%

0.7%

52:45

0.716

0.940

(Motion To Invoke Cloture On The Nomination Of Priscilla R. Owen, To Be U.S. Circuit Judge For The Fifth Circuit )

Priscilla Richman Owen, of Texas, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, vice William L. Garwood, retired.

Cloture Motion Rejected

5.0%

2.3%

19.9%

96.0%

99.5%

50:49

0.759

0.940

(Motion To Waive C.B.A. Kennedy Amdt No. 544 )

To provide for additional weeks of temporary extended unemployment compensation and to provide for a program of temporary enhanced regular unemployment compensation, and for other purposes.

Motion Rejected

95.0%

97.7%

80.1%

4.0%

0.5%

50:49

0.759

0.940

(Motion To Table Kennedy Amdt. No. 832 )

To extend the Temporary Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002, to provide additional weeks of temporary extended unemployment compensation, and to make extended unemployment benefits under the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act temporarily available for employees.

Motion to Table Agreed to

95.4%

98.5%

71.8%

4.1%

0.5%

50:48

0.726

0.940

(Motion to Table Murray Amdt. No. 284 )

To fully fund the No Child Left Behind Act in 2004 and reduce debt by reducing tax breaks for the wealthiest taxpayers.

Motion to Table Agreed to

96.7%

99.0%

88.4%

19.9%

0.7%

52:45

0.714

0.939

(Gregg Amdt. No. 19 )

To provide additional funding for innovative programs at the state and local level.

Amendment Agreed to

97.5%

96.6%

88.8%

19.9%

0.8%

52:44

0.689

0.939

(Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Nomination of Pricilla R. Owen, of Texas, to be U.S. Circuit Judge )

Priscilla Richman Owen, of Texas, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, vice William L. Garwood, retired.

Cloture Motion Rejected

0.6%

0.9%

10.4%

80.1%

96.9%

46:54

0.813

0.938

(Motion To Waive C.B.A. Landrieu Amdt. No. 620 )

To provide pay protection for members of the Reserve and the National Guard, and for other purposes.

Motion Rejected

0.6%

1.0%

10.8%

80.1%

96.9%

46:54

0.812

0.938

(Motion To Waive C.B.A. Landieu Amdt. No. 619 )

To provide a a complete substitute.

Motion Rejected

93.6%

98.9%

88.2%

4.9%

0.5%

50:48

0.741

0.937

(McCain Amdt. No. 783 )

To propose the insertion of matter in lieu of the matter proposed to be stricken.

Amendment Agreed to

96.3%

92.0%

88.5%

5.4%

0.4%

50:45

0.693

0.937

(Motion To Table Boxer Amdt. No. 1271 )

To require reports on U.S. operations in Iraq.

Motion to Table Agreed to

98.2%

94.2%

57.1%

5.5%

0.4%

****

50:50

0.806

0.937

(H.Con.Res.95 Conference Report )

?

Conference Report Agreed to

0.6%

1.0%

10.8%

79.9%

96.9%

46:52

0.747

0.937

(Byrd Amendment No. 36 )

To nullify all across-the-board rescissions contained in this joint resolution.

Amendment Rejected

96.4%

99.0%

88.9%

7.3%

2.5%

52:46

0.739

0.936

(Motion To Table Harkin Amdt. No. 32 )

To restore funding for nondiscretionary Byrne grants to a level of $500,000,000.

Motion to Table Agreed to

96.3%

97.3%

63.7%

5.4%

0.5%

50:48

0.716

0.936

(Thomas Amdt. No. 246 )

To propose a substitute.

Amendment Agreed to

99.2%

99.1%

89.1%

37.2%

1.1%

54:44

0.717

0.934

(Motion to Table Boxer Amdt. No. 1036 )

To eliminate the coverage gap for individuals with cancer.

Motion to Table Agreed to

0.8%

0.9%

10.9%

62.8%

98.9%

46:53

0.749

0.934

(Harkin Amdt. No. 425 )

To restore education cuts.

Amendment Rejected

99.2%

99.1%

88.8%

27.8%

2.3%

54:43

0.691

0.934

(Motion to Invoke Cloture re: Charles W. Pickering, of Mississippi, to be U.S. Circuit Judge )

Charles W. Pickering, Sr., of Mississippi, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit.

Cloture Motion Rejected

0.9%

0.9%

11.5%

84.8%

96.0%

46:51

0.753

0.932

(Lincoln Amdt. No. 324 )

To allow full access to Tricare for National Guard and Reserve Personnel and their families on a continual basis, offset with reductions to the tax cut.

Amendment Rejected

0.9%

1.0%

11.4%

94.3%

94.8%

46:51

0.751

0.932

(Kennedy Amdt. No. 13 )

To provide additional funding for education.

Amendment Rejected

96.9%

91.8%

88.5%

18.4%

0.7%

51:43

0.640

0.924

(Motion To Invoke Cloture On William H. Pryor of Alabama, To Be U.S. Circuit Judge )

William H. Pryor, Jr., of Alabama, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Eleventh Circuit.

Cloture Motion Rejected

4.1%

1.8%

28.5%

81.5%

99.3%

49:51

0.766

0.923

(Motion to Waive C.B.A Dorgan Amdt. No. 556 )

To repeal the 1993 income tax increase on Social Security benefits and to offset the revenue loss.

Motion Rejected

3.4%

3.1%

32.1%

80.1%

99.3%

49:51

0.761

0.921

(Breaux Amdt. No. 663 )

To provide reconciliation pursuant to section 201 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2004.

Amendment Rejected

97.4%

98.4%

50.9%

19.9%

0.7%

51:49

0.761

0.921

(Motion To Waive C.B.A. Sessions Amdt. No. 639 )

To apply the sunset provision to the revenue increase provisions.

Motion Rejected

99.5%

99.1%

91.5%

38.3%

2.9%

55:43

0.698

0.920

(Motion to Invoke Cloture On The Nomination of Miguel A. Estrada Of Virginia To Be U.S. Circuit Judge. )

Miguel A. Estrada, of Virginia, to be United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, vice Patricia M. Wald, retired.

Cloture Motion Rejected

99.5%

99.1%

91.5%

38.3%

2.9%

55:42

0.673

0.920

(Motion To Invoke Cloture On The Nomination Of Miguel A. Estrada, Of Virginia, To Be U.S. Circuit Judge )

Miguel A. Estrada, of Virginia, to be United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, vice Patricia M. Wald, retired.

Cloture Motion Rejected

99.5%

99.1%

91.5%

38.3%

2.9%

55:44

0.730

0.920

(Motion To Invoke Cloture On The Nomination Of Miguel A. Estrada To Be U.S. Circuit Judge )

Miguel A. Estrada, of Virginia, to be United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, vice Patricia M. Wald, retired.

Cloture Motion Rejected

99.5%

99.1%

91.5%

38.3%

2.9%

55:44

0.730

0.920

(Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Nomination of Miguel A. Estrada, of Virginia, to be U.S. Circuit Judge. )

Miguel A. Estrada, of Virginia, to be United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, vice Patricia M. Wald, retired.

Cloture Motion Rejected

99.5%

99.1%

91.5%

38.3%

2.9%

55:45

0.781

0.920

(Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Nomination of Miguel A. Estrada to be U.S. Circuit Judge. )

Miguel A. Estrada, of Virginia, to be United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, vice Patricia M. Wald, retired.

Cloture Motion Rejected

98.2%

98.7%

73.1%

37.9%

0.8%

53:45

0.678

0.919

(Motion to Table Lautenberg Amdt. No. 192 )

To increase the appropriation for the Hazardous Substance Superfund.

Motion to Table Agreed to

5.6%

1.7%

49.8%

94.8%

99.6%

51:48

0.719

0.919

(Breaux Amdt. No. 420 )

To redirect $396 billion into a reserve fund to strengthen the Social Security trust funds over the long term.

Amendment Agreed to

92.4%

95.0%

88.1%

5.1%

0.4%

49:48

0.671

0.919

(Motion To Invoke Cloture On The Motion To Proceed To S. 11 )

A bill to protect patients' access to quality and affordable health care by reducing the effects of excessive liability costs.

Cloture Motion Rejected

4.5%

2.7%

57.5%

94.6%

99.6%

51:49

0.767

0.918

(Byrd Amdt. No. 387 )

To provide adequate funds for the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak).

Amendment Agreed to

4.1%

2.0%

65.8%

94.5%

99.6%

51:48

0.717

0.918

(Cantwell Amdt. No. 382 )

To restore funding for programs under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998.

Amendment Agreed to

0.5%

0.9%

10.3%

48.4%

98.7%

45:54

0.723

0.918

(Schumer Amdt. No. 299 )

To provide immediate assistance to meet pressing homeland security needs by providing funding in 2003 for first responders, port security, bioterrorism preparedness and prevention, border security and transit security, the FBI; to restore the elimination of funding of the COPS program, firefighter equipment grants, Byrne Grants and Local Law enforcement grants; to provide a sustained commitment of resources for homeland security needs without reducing funding to other key domestic law enforcement and public safety priorities; and to reduce the deficit.

Amendment Rejected

91.6%

96.8%

88.2%

5.2%

0.5%

49:46

0.690

0.917

(Motion To Table Byrd Amdt. No. 1888 )

To eliminate the flexibility given to the President to reallocate all of the $20.3 billion Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Funds, without approval by Congress.

Motion to Table Agreed to

0.6%

0.9%

10.8%

79.4%

94.7%

45:52

0.715

0.917

(Feinstein Amdt. No. 682 )

To modify provisions relating to the distribution of funding.

Amendment Rejected

1.7%

1.0%

32.1%

62.8%

99.0%

47:52

0.702

0.917

(Conrad Amdt. No. 376 )

To provide full funding for the individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) part B grants over ten years by reducing tax breaks for the wealthiest tax payers.

To prohibit the use of Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Funds for low priority activities that should not be the responsibility of U.S. taxpayers, and shift $600 million from the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund to Defense Operations and Maintenance, Army, for significantly improving efforts to secure and destroy conventional weapons, such as bombs, bomb materials, small arms, rocket propelled grenades, and shoulder-launched missiles, in Iraq.

Motion to Table Agreed to

0.8%

0.6%

10.6%

92.2%

92.9%

45:53

0.762

0.915

(Motion to Waive C.B.A. re: Murray Amdt. No. 1327 )

To increase funding for emergency management performance grants.

Motion Rejected

99.2%

92.1%

88.8%

27.8%

2.3%

53:44

0.646

0.915

(H.J. Res. 51 )

?

Bill Passed

0.8%

0.6%

10.6%

92.5%

92.9%

45:51

0.727

0.915

(Byrd Amendment No. 2 )

To provide additional funds for certain homeland security measures.

Amendment Rejected

0.8%

0.6%

10.6%

92.5%

92.9%

45:51

0.727

0.915

(Byrd Amendment No. 8 )

To provide additional funds for certain homeland security measures.

Amendment Rejected

0.8%

0.9%

10.6%

62.3%

96.6%

45:54

0.713

0.914

(Mikulski Amdt. No. 349 )

To revise the resolution to accommodate in reconciliations legislation a partially refundable tax credit of up to $5,000 for eligible expenses for individuals with long term or chronic care needs or their family caregivers who pay these expenses; in which "eligible expenses" shall include prescription drugs, medical bills, durable medical equipment, home health care custodial care, respite care, adult day care, transportation to chronic care or medical facilities, specialized therapy (including occupational therapy, physical therapy, or rehabilitational therapy), other specialized services for children (including day care for children with special needs) and other long term care related expenses as defined by the Secretary of Health and Human Services; and in which "individuals with long term or chronic care needs" of daily living, individuals with severe cognitive impairment, individual

Amendment Rejected

99.2%

99.1%

88.9%

33.4%

3.9%

55:44

0.713

0.913

(Motion To Table Daschle Amdt. NO. 1854 )

To achieve the most effective means of reconstructing Iraq and to reduce the future costs to the American taxpayer of such reconstruction by ensuring broad-based international cooperation for this effort.

Motion to Table Agreed to

0.8%

0.9%

11.3%

76.0%

94.9%

45:51

0.673

0.913

(Motion To Waive CBA Schumer Amdt Noy. 1351 )

To make available an additional $200,000,000 to increase the number of border personnel at the northern border of the United States by the end of fiscal year 2004.

Motion Rejected

0.8%

0.9%

11.4%

94.4%

92.5%

45:50

0.620

0.913

(Kerry Amdt. No. 255 )

To provide an additional condition.

Amendment Rejected

0.9%

0.9%

11.4%

94.0%

92.5%

45:51

0.723

0.912

(Motion To Waive CBA Schumer Amdt. No. 1343 )

To increase the funds for research and development related to transportation security, and for other purposes.

Motion Rejected

97.4%

97.5%

91.1%

38.0%

2.9%

54:43

0.651

0.902

(Motion To Invoke Cloture On The Nomination Of Miguel A. Estrada To Be U.S. Cicuit Judge )

Miguel A. Estrada, of Virginia, to be United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, vice Patricia M. Wald, retired.

Cloture Motion Rejected

97.4%

93.5%

40.6%

19.9%

0.7%

****

50:50

0.721

0.902

(H.R. 2 Conference Report )

To provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 201 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2004.

Conference Report Agreed to

97.4%

93.5%

40.6%

19.9%

0.7%

****

50:50

0.721

0.902

(Nickles Amdt. No. 664 )

To modify the dividend exclusion provision, and for other purposes.

Amendment Agreed to

93.9%

99.0%

89.5%

19.7%

3.0%

52:41

0.587

0.902

(Confirmation Jeffrey S. Sutton, of Ohio, to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit. )

Jeffrey S. Sutton, of Ohio, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit, vice David A. Nelson, retired.

Nomination Confirmed

1.4%

1.0%

31.4%

48.4%

98.7%

46:54

0.723

0.901

(Motion to Waive C.B.A. re: Daschle Amdt. No. 656 )

To create jobs, provide opportunity, and restore prosperity.

Motion Rejected

1.4%

1.0%

31.7%

57.9%

97.5%

46:52

0.665

0.900

(Byrd Amdt. No. 412y )

To foster greater debate in the Senate and to prevent further increases in the deficit by striking the reconciliation instructions to the Committee on Finance.

Amendment Rejected

94.4%

93.4%

39.9%

5.2%

0.4%

48:52

0.734

0.900

(Murkowski Amdt. No. 430 )

To extend the child tax credit until the year 2013.

Amendment Rejected

5.8%

6.2%

59.1%

94.7%

99.6%

52:47

0.686

0.900

(Feingold Amdt. No. 270 )

To set aside a reserve fund for possible military action and reconstruction in Iraq.

Amendment Agreed to

0.5%

5.8%

20.6%

48.4%

98.7%

46:53

0.672

0.899

(Lautenberg Amdt. No. 300 )

To restore national security funding.

Amendment Rejected

96.0%

98.0%

34.3%

23.5%

0.4%

50:48

0.637

0.899

(Motion to Table Cantwell Amdt. No. 108 )

To increase appropriations for workforce investment activities.

Motion to Table Agreed to

96.8%

98.8%

88.8%

40.0%

2.9%

54:42

0.616

0.898

(Motion to Table Boxer Amdt. No. 1001 )

To eliminate the coverage gap.

Motion to Table Agreed to

99.5%

99.1%

89.5%

43.1%

4.8%

56:43

0.692

0.898

(Motion To Table Durbin Amdt. No. 1879 )

To provide funds for the prevention, treatment, and control of, and research on HIV/AIDS.

Motion to Table Agreed to

0.5%

0.9%

10.2%

41.5%

97.2%

44:56

0.739

0.897

(Motion to Waive C.B.A. re: Dayton Amdt. No. 615 )

In the nature of a substitute.

Motion Rejected

96.3%

92.1%

89.6%

19.3%

3.3%

52:43

0.615

0.897

(Kennedy Amdt. No. 1273 )

To require a report on the United States strategy for reconstruction in Iraq.

Motion to Table Agreed to

96.4%

92.2%

89.2%

11.2%

4.3%

52:42

0.595

0.897

(Motion to table Bingaman Amdt.No. 1268 )

To require a report on the individuals being detained by the United States Government as enemy combatants.

Motion to Table Agreed to

99.4%

99.0%

90.5%

32.1%

6.2%

56:42

0.660

0.897

(Motion To Table Leahy AMDT. No. 1803 )

To place the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq under the direct authority and foreign policy guidance of the Secretary of State.

Motion to Table Agreed to

95.4%

94.6%

55.4%

5.7%

2.8%

50:48

0.634

0.897

(Motion To Table Hollings Amdt. No. 1341 )

To provide funds to increase maritime security.

Motion to Table Agreed to

93.8%

98.7%

88.1%

37.2%

1.1%

52:43

0.614

0.897

(Motion to Table Rockefeller Amdt. No. 976 )

To treat costs for covered drugs as incurred costs without regard to whether the individual or another person, including a State program or other third-party coverage, has paid for such costs.

Motion to Table Agreed to

92.2%

97.1%

79.8%

9.5%

2.3%

50:47

0.621

0.896

(Motion to Table Boxer Amdt. No. 472 )

To set aside $30,000,000 for the Department of Homeland Security for research and development and deployment of technology to protect commercial aircraft from the threat posed by man-portable air defense systems.

Motion to Table Agreed to

0.6%

0.9%

10.8%

79.6%

92.3%

44:53

0.738

0.896

(Byrd Amdt. No. 1969 )

To require that the Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority be an officer who is appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.

Amendment Rejected

96.4%

99.0%

89.5%

26.0%

4.8%

54:43

0.635

0.895

(Confirmation Victor J. Wolski, of Virginia, to be Judge of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims )

Victor J. Wolski, of Virginia, to be a Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims for a term of fifteen years, vice Bohdan A. Futey, term expired.

Nomination Confirmed

4.9%

3.0%

19.5%

94.3%

94.9%

48:49

0.669

0.895

(Motion To Waive CBA Mikulski Amdt. No. 1346 )

To increase the amount of the appropriation for firefighter assistance grants by $150,000,000.

Motion Rejected

0.7%

0.9%

9.2%

93.5%

90.5%

44:50

0.597

0.895

(Levin Amdt. No. 252 As Modified )

To provide an additional condition requiring notice and consultations prior to withdrawal from, or extension of, the Treaty.

Amendment Rejected

2.1%

1.3%

27.5%

66.8%

96.0%

46:51

0.662

0.894

(Baucus Amdt. No. 348 )

To ensure that a prescription drug benefit is available to all medicare beneficiaries on an equal basis, including those who choose to remain in the current fee-for-service program.

Amendment Rejected

0.8%

0.9%

10.8%

84.1%

91.5%

44:51

0.703

0.892

(Dodd Amdt. No. 685 )

To add CARICOM Countries and the Dominican Republic to Priority List of HIV/AIDS Coordinator.

Amendment Rejected

0.8%

0.9%

11.4%

94.0%

90.2%

44:51

0.702

0.892

(Motion to Waive C.B.A. re: Byrd Amdt. No. 1543 )

To provide additional funding for education for the disadvantaged.

Motion Rejected

0.9%

0.9%

11.3%

92.9%

90.3%

44:50

0.672

0.891

(Motion To Waive CBA RE: Amdt. No. 1372 )

To appropriate $1000,000,000 for grants to public transit agencies to enhance public transportation security against terrorist threats.

Motion Rejected

90.0%

94.1%

56.9%

4.9%

0.3%

47:52

0.689

0.884

(Bunning Amdt. No. 413 )

To repeal a 1993 tax increase on Social Security benefits.

Amendment Rejected

93.9%

96.8%

67.9%

25.1%

2.3%

51:43

0.563

0.883

(Motion To Table Feinstein Amdt. No. 715 )

To strike the repeal of the prohibition on research and development of low-yield nuclear weapons.

Motion to Table Agreed to

97.4%

93.6%

40.7%

25.4%

2.3%

51:49

0.676

0.882

(H.R. 2, As Amended )

To provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 201 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2004.

Bill Passed

97.5%

98.4%

51.5%

51.6%

1.3%

53:43

0.568

0.882

(Voinovich Amdt. No. 1754, As Modified )

To substitute a requirement for an annual report on competitive sourcing activities on lists required under the Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act of 1998 that are performed for the Department of the Interior by Federal Government sources.

Amendment Agreed to

96.8%

99.0%

89.9%

55.7%

3.1%

55:42

0.593

0.880

(Motion ot Table Dodd Amdt. No. 969 )

To permit continuous open enrollment and disenrollment in Medicare Prescription Drug plans and MedicareAdvantage plans until 2008.

Motion to Table Agreed to

96.8%

99.0%

89.9%

55.7%

3.1%

55:44

0.689

0.880

(Motion to Table Graham (FL) Amdt. No. 294 )

To provide a meaningful prescription drug benefit in Medicare that is available to all beneficiaries.

Motion to Table Agreed to

5.8%

3.1%

73.6%

94.6%

97.2%

51:48

0.685

0.878

(Lautenebrg Amdt. No. 722 )

To modify requirements applicable to the limitation on designation of critical habitat of conservation of protected species under the provision on military readiness and conservation of protected species.

Amendment Agreed to

5.4%

2.9%

12.1%

95.6%

92.6%

47:49

0.652

0.878

(Motion To Waive CBA Reed Amdt. No. 1592 )

To increase funding for immunization services.

Motion Rejected

96.4%

92.2%

89.1%

23.7%

5.0%

53:41

0.566

0.877

(Motion to Table Dorgan Amdt. No. 1264 )

Top require from the President a budget amendment for the budget for fiscal year 2004 on the amounts requested for military operations in Iraq in fiscal year 2004.

Motion to Table Agreed to

99.5%

99.1%

89.9%

58.2%

5.2%

57:42

0.663

0.877

(Motion to Table Conrad Amdt. No. 266 )

To redirect $1.214 trillion in revenues that would have been lost by implementing the President's entire tax cut agenda into a reserve fund to strengthen the Social Security trust funds over the long-term.

Motion to Table Agreed to

99.5%

99.1%

90.3%

55.8%

5.5%

57:41

0.633

0.877

(Motion To Table Durbin Amdt. NO. 1108 )

To provide additional assistance for certain eligible beneficiaries under part D.

Motion to Table Agreed to

0.5%

0.9%

10.1%

36.0%

95.5%

43:56

0.660

0.877

(Conrad Amdt. No. 411 )

To provide a substitute.

Amendment Rejected

0.4%

0.9%

10.7%

61.6%

92.3%

43:52

0.623

0.877

(Motion to Waive CBA Corzine AMDT. No. 1350 )

To appropriate $8,000,000 for the Office of the Under Secretary for Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection to conduct chemical facility security assessments.

Motion Rejected

0.5%

0.9%

10.1%

42.9%

94.7%

43:56

0.693

0.877

(Motion to Waive CBA Re: Conrad Amdt. No. 264 )

To prevent further deficit increases, except for national and homeland security and short-term effects of measures providing for economic recovery, until the President submits to Congress a detailed estimate of the full cost of the conflict with Iraq.

Motion Rejected

3.3%

1.1%

11.4%

85.6%

91.5%

45:50

0.669

0.877

(Boxer Amdt. No. 684 )

To require a specific plan to help AIDS orphans.

Amendment Rejected

99.5%

99.1%

89.4%

53.9%

5.8%

57:42

0.661

0.877

(Motion To Table Byrd Amdt. No. 1818 )

To impose a limitation on the use of sums appropriated for the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund.

Motion to Table Agreed to

99.4%

99.1%

89.4%

35.7%

8.2%

57:39

0.588

0.875

(Motion To Invoke Cloture On The Nomination Of Thomas C. Dorr, Of Iowa, To Be A Member Of The Board Of Directors, Commodity Credit Corporation. )

Thomas C. Dorr, of Iowa, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Commodity Credit Corporation,vice Jill L. Long, resigned.

Cloture Motion Rejected

99.4%

99.1%

89.4%

35.7%

8.2%

57:39

0.588

0.875

(Motion To Invoke Cloture On The Nomination Of Thomas C. Dorr, Of Iowa, To Be Under Secretary Of Agriculture. )

Thomas C. Dorr, of Iowa, to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development.

Cloture Motion Rejected

1.9%

6.4%

38.3%

67.1%

96.0%

47:52

0.657

0.875

(Motion To Waive C.B.A. Feingold Amdt. No. 835 )

To extend the current-law pay-as-you-go requirement.

Motion Rejected

3.7%

2.7%

35.6%

94.0%

92.6%

47:50

0.690

0.875

(Mikulski Amdt. No. 247 )

To prohibit funds to be used to establish, apply, or enforce certain goals relating to Federal employees and public-private competitions or work force conversions, and for other purposes.

Amendment Rejected

3.2%

1.9%

44.6%

94.1%

92.5%

47:49

0.644

0.874

(Motion To Waive CBA Reed Amdt. No. 1596 )

To increase funding for certain literacy, library, and museum programs.

Motion Rejected

0.8%

0.6%

10.6%

92.1%

88.3%

43:51

0.634

0.874

(Motion To Waive CBA RE: Durbin amdt. No. 1613 )

To provide additional funding for teacher quality programs under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 and the Higher Education Act of 1965 and for the Mathematics and Science Partnerships and the school leadership program under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.

Motion Rejected

0.8%

0.9%

10.6%

58.1%

92.5%

43:52

0.583

0.872

(Clinton Amdt. No. 1000 )

To study the comparative effectiveness and safety of important Medicare covered drugs to ensure that consumers can make meaningful comparisons about the quality and efficacy.

Amendment Rejected

0.9%

0.8%

10.6%

82.1%

89.4%

43:57

0.695

0.871

(Motion to Waive C.B.A. Dorgan Amdt. No. 666 )

To strike the section relating to qualified tax collection contracts.

Motion Rejected

0.8%

0.9%

11.2%

93.9%

87.9%

43:50

0.652

0.871

(Motion to Waive CBA re: Byrd Amdt. No. 1317 )

To fulfill Homeland Security promises.

Motion Rejected

11.7%

5.1%

58.4%

96.4%

99.7%

54:45

0.638

0.866

(Harkin Amdt. No. 1580 )

To protect the rights of employees to receive overtime compensation.

Amendment Agreed to

93.0%

96.4%

83.3%

37.8%

2.8%

52:39

0.527

0.866

(Motion To Invoke Cloture On The Nomination Of Miguel A. Estrada, Of Virginia, To Be U.S. Circuit Judge )

Miguel A. Estrada, of Virginia, to be United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, vice Patricia M. Wald, retired.

Cloture Motion Rejected

93.6%

93.3%

89.9%

18.8%

5.2%

52:47

0.602

0.865

(Motion To Table Landrieu Amdt. No. 1859 )

To promote the establishment of an Iraq Reconstruction Finance Authority and the use of Iraqi oil revenues to pay for reconstruction in Iraq.

Motion to Table Agreed to

87.7%

95.2%

80.2%

19.4%

0.7%

48:46

0.517

0.865

(Motion To Table Nelson(FL) Amdt. No. 97 )

To make additional appropriations for emergency relief activities.

Motion to Table Agreed to

98.7%

99.1%

70.4%

44.1%

6.7%

56:41

0.570

0.862

(Motion To Table Dorgan Amdt. No. 750 As Modified )

To prohibit the use of funds for a nuclear earth penetrator weapon.

Motion to Table Agreed to

99.5%

99.1%

93.3%

59.3%

7.2%

58:42

0.688

0.860

(Motion to Table Harkin Amdt. No. 386. )

To reduce the reconciliation instruction by $375 billion, reduce the size of tax cuts allowed by $980 billion and to reduce deficits by $1.1 Trillion.

Motion to Table Agreed to

92.2%

91.0%

77.9%

36.8%

1.0%

50:48

0.569

0.860

(Motion To Table Harkin Amdt. No. 991 As Modified )

To establish a demonstration project under the Medicaid program to encourage the provision of community-based services to individuals with disabilities.

Timothy M. Tymkovich, of Colorado, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit, vice John C. Porfilio, retired.

Nomination Confirmed

99.5%

94.3%

79.6%

66.4%

4.1%

56:44

0.652

0.858

(S.Con.Res. 23, as Amended )

?

Concurrent Resolution Agreed to

3.6%

0.5%

10.3%

85.3%

89.2%

44:53

0.593

0.856

(Motion To Waive CBA Schumer Amdt. No. 1598 )

To provide additional funding for programs under the Ryan White Care Act.

Motion Rejected

4.9%

3.1%

52.4%

94.1%

92.6%

48:48

0.614

0.856

(Motion To Waive CBA Murray Amdt. No. 1170 )

To provide additional weeks of temporary extended unemployment compensation for individuals who have exhausted such compensation and to make extended unemployment benefits under the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act temporarily available for employees with less than 10 years of service.

Motion Rejected

3.0%

9.4%

11.8%

94.3%

90.3%

46:49

0.627

0.855

(Motion to Waive CBA RE: Boxer Amdt. No. 1609 )

To provide additional funding for afterschool programs under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.

Motion Rejected

0.7%

0.6%

9.9%

91.6%

86.1%

42:54

0.675

0.855

(Motion to Waive C.B.A. re: Dayton Amdt. No. 1554 )

To increase funding for a part B of the individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

Motion Rejected

2.8%

1.6%

49.5%

92.9%

90.4%

46:50

0.673

0.854

(Byrd Amdt. No. 1373 )

To prohibit funds appropriated under this Act from being used by any advisory committee that has been exempted from the Federal Advisory Committee Act.

Amendment Rejected

1.7%

1.0%

31.8%

62.6%

92.0%

44:53

0.649

0.854

(Motion to Waive CBA re: Reid Amdt. No. 560 )

To ensure that Social Security surpluses are not raided in order to fund tax cuts on corporate dividends.

Motion Rejected

0.8%

0.9%

10.3%

53.0%

90.8%

42:54

0.576

0.852

(Levin Amdt. No. 1111 )

To ensure that current retirees who have prescription drug coverage who will lose their prescription drug coverage as a result of the enactment of this legislation have the option of drug coverage under the Medicare fallback.

Amendment Rejected

88.9%

90.8%

88.4%

22.3%

2.5%

49:37

0.485

0.846

(Motion To Table Dodd Amdt. No. 1817 )

To provide an additional $322,000,000 for safety equipment for United States forces in Iraq and to reduce the amount provided for reconstruction in Iraq by $322,000,000.

Motion to Table Agreed to

93.6%

98.3%

67.1%

27.3%

6.5%

53:41

0.509

0.845

(Motion To Table Feinstein Amdt. No. 1655 )

To prohibit the use of funds for Department of Energy activities relating to the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator, Advanced Weapons Concepts, modification of the readiness posture of the Nevada Test Site, and the Modern Pit Facility, and to make the amount of funds made available by the prohibition for debt reduction.

Motion Agreed to

91.9%

98.4%

51.5%

39.8%

2.7%

51:45

0.508

0.844

(Motion to Table Lincoln Amdt. No. 1002 )

To allow Medicare beneficiaries who are enrolled in fallback plans to remain in such plans for two years by requiring the same contracting cycle for fallback plans as Medicare Prescription Drug plans.

Motion to Table Agreed to

96.3%

98.0%

35.0%

54.1%

3.3%

53:44

0.520

0.841

(Motion to Table Bingaman Amdt. No. 1413 )

To strengthen the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's authority to review public utility mergers.

Motion to Table Agreed to

98.7%

99.1%

68.7%

68.5%

6.1%

57:42

0.585

0.839

(Motion to Table Biden Amdt. No. 1796 )

To provide funds for the security and stabilization of Iraq by suspending a portion of the reductions in the highest income tax rate for individual taxpayers.

Motion to Table Agreed to

1.3%

0.9%

31.5%

39.8%

92.8%

43:56

0.583

0.839

(Lautenberg Amdt. No. 408 )

To require polluters to pay for cleanup of toxic waste sites, by reinstating the original superfund taxes.

Amendment Rejected

6.6%

3.4%

28.1%

95.5%

90.2%

47:47

0.572

0.838

(Motion To Waive CBA Dodd Amdt. No. 1597 )

To increase funds for Head Start.

Motion Rejected

0.5%

0.6%

9.5%

74.3%

86.1%

41:54

0.567

0.838

(Motion To Waive C.B.A. RE: Dodd AMDT No. 1363 )

To fund urgent priorities for our Nation's firefighters, law enforcement personnel, and emergency medical personnel, and all Americans by reducing the 2003 tax breaks for individuals with annual income in excess of $1,000,000.

Motion Rejected

6.1%

2.9%

36.7%

95.6%

90.2%

47:48

0.601

0.838

(Mikulski Amdt. No. 1917 )

To prohibit the use of funds for implementing the 2003 revision of Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76.

Amendment Rejected

96.8%

98.9%

90.0%

10.3%

13.6%

57:39

0.522

0.837

(Motion To Table Dorgan AMDT. NO. 1826 )

To require that Iraqi oil revenues be used to pay for reconstruction in Iraq.

Motion to Table Agreed to

0.5%

0.9%

9.3%

72.7%

86.2%

41:51

0.600

0.835

(Bingaman Amdt. No. 2048 )

To make an additional $200,000,000 available for the Global AIDS Initiative and reduce the amount available for Millennium Challenge Assistance by $200,000,000.

Amendment Rejected

4.9%

6.6%

35.9%

93.0%

90.4%

47:48

0.598

0.835

(Bingaman Amdt. NO. 1830 DIV I )

To authorize the award of the Iraqi Liberation Medal as a campaign medal for members of the Armed Forces who serve in Southwest Asia in connection with Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Amendment Rejected

2.0%

0.9%

26.4%

87.0%

86.6%

43:51

0.557

0.835

(Motion To Waive CBA RE: Durbin Amdt. No. 1591 )

To provide funding for the prevention, treatment, and control of, and research on, global HIV/AIDS.

Motion Rejected

2.0%

1.3%

26.7%

51.2%

91.0%

43:55

0.603

0.832

(Bingaman Amdt. No. 1066 )

To permit the establishment of 2 new Medigap plans for Medicare beneficiaries enrolled for prescription drug coverage under part D.

Amendment Rejected

1.8%

1.5%

28.3%

74.0%

88.1%

43:46

0.539

0.832

(Motion to Waive C.B.A. re: Harkin Amdt. No. 1575 )

To provide additional funding for the Fund for the Improvement of Education.

Motion Rejected

0.8%

5.7%

21.1%

93.7%

85.6%

43:52

0.645

0.832

(Daschle Amdt. No. 1739, As Modified )

To strike funding for implementation of the Department of the Interior's reorganization plan for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Office of Special Trustee and to transfer the savings to the Indian Health Service.

Amendment Rejected

0.7%

0.9%

10.6%

48.7%

89.0%

41:54

0.557

0.831

(Dodd Amdt. No. 970 )

To provide 50 percent cost-sharing for a beneficiary whose income is at least 160 percent but not more thansa968 250 percent of the poverty line after the beneficiary has reached the initial coverage gap and before the beneficiary has reached the annual out-of pocket limit.

Amendment Rejected

0.7%

0.9%

10.6%

48.7%

89.0%

41:55

0.586

0.831

(Dodd Amdt. No. 998 )

To modify the amount of the direct subsidy to be provided to qualified retiree prescription drug plans.

To provide additional funds for programs relating to West Nile Virus and to fund the Mosquito Abatement for Safety and Health Act.

Motion Rejected

0.5%

5.7%

19.6%

42.3%

90.1%

42:54

0.548

0.818

(Kennedy Amdt. No. 681 )

To provide for the procurement of certain pharmaceuticals at the lowest possible price for products of assured quality.

Amendment Rejected

5.9%

1.6%

44.2%

92.3%

88.3%

46:49

0.555

0.817

(Motion to Waive C.B.A. re: Murray Amdt. No. 1559 )

To restore funding for certain programs under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998.

Motion Rejected

4.4%

7.2%

39.7%

88.5%

88.5%

****

46:46

0.528

0.813

(Byrd AMDT. No. 1383 )

To provide post-employment lobbying restrictions on employees of the Department of Homeland Security and the Office of Homeland Security within the Executive Office of the President.

Amendment Rejected

96.5%

99.1%

89.4%

59.2%

10.0%

58:36

0.485

0.812

(Motion to Table Bingaman Amdt. No. 2035 )

To require the treatment of slash and other long term fuels management for hazardous fuels reduction projects.

Motion to Table Agreed to

93.5%

93.2%

26.9%

28.5%

6.4%

51:48

0.531

0.806

(Kyl Amdt. No. 288, as Modified )

To provide financial security to family farm and small business owners by ending the unfair practice of taxing someone at death.

Amendment Agreed to

98.7%

99.5%

69.1%

66.3%

10.9%

59:38

0.499

0.800

(Warner Amdt. No. 752 )

To propose a substitute.

Amendment Agreed to

3.8%

1.9%

63.6%

72.7%

88.6%

45:47

0.540

0.800

(Feinstein Amdt. No. 1977 )

To clarify the definition of HIV/AIDS prevention for purposes of providing funds for therapeutic medical care.

Amendment Rejected

9.1%

3.7%

29.7%

92.3%

88.4%

47:49

0.509

0.800

(Motion To Waive CBA Corzine Amdt. No. 1811 )

To amend title 10, United States Code, to reduce the age for receipt of military retired pay for nonregular service from 60 to 55.

Motion Rejected

0.4%

0.5%

8.5%

36.8%

86.3%

39:56

0.499

0.798

(Durbin Amdt. No. 994 )

To deliver a meaningful benefit and lower prescription drug prices.

Amendment Rejected

10.2%

5.4%

44.9%

94.4%

90.3%

49:46

0.543

0.798

(Motion To Waive CBA Landrieu Amdt. No. 1610 )

To increase funding for the promoting safe and stable families program.

Motion Rejected

10.1%

5.4%

45.4%

94.5%

90.2%

49:46

0.542

0.798

(Motion to Waive C.B.A. er: Kennedy Amdt. No. 1566 )

To increase student financial aid by an amount that matches the increase in low- and middle-income family college costs.

Motion Rejected

4.5%

2.6%

55.2%

91.9%

86.0%

45:49

0.608

0.797

(Motion To Waive C.B.A. RE: Reed Amdt. No. 40 )

To expend the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002.

Motion Rejected

96.8%

99.1%

90.1%

30.5%

15.7%

59:35

0.468

0.797

(Motion To Table Stabenow AMDT. No. 1823 )

To provide emergency relief for veterans healthcare, school construction, healthcare and transportation needs in the United States, and to create 95,000 new jobs.

Motion to Table Agreed to

1.6%

0.8%

29.8%

57.0%

85.9%

41:56

0.562

0.796

(Motion to Waive CBA Re: Clinton Amdt. No. 89 )

To improve health care under the medicare and medicaid programs.

Motion Rejected

3.1%

1.1%

10.5%

34.4%

88.7%

41:54

0.496

0.796

(Lautenberg Amdt. No. 982 )

To make prescription drug coverage available beginning on July 1, 2004.

Amendment Rejected

96.9%

98.6%

90.1%

42.0%

14.3%

****

59:39

0.509

0.795

(Motion To Invoke Cloture On The Motion To Proceed To Consider S. 1751 )

A bill to amend the procedures that apply to consideration of interstate class actions to assure fairer outcomes for class members and defendants, and for other purposes.

Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected

0.4%

0.9%

9.6%

34.3%

86.4%

39:56

0.516

0.795

(Graham (FL) Amdt. No. 956 )

To provide that an eligible beneficiary is not responsible for paying the applicable percent of the monthly national average premium while the beneficiary is in the caverage gap and to sunset the bill, and for other purposes.

Amendment Rejected

0.5%

0.8%

9.3%

29.2%

87.0%

39:59

0.583

0.795

(Dorgan Amdt. No. 1103 )

To reduce aggregate beneficiary obligations by $2,400,000,000 per year beginning in 2009.

Amendment Rejected

2.5%

6.7%

28.4%

88.2%

84.0%

43:54

0.546

0.793

(Motion to Suspend Rule XVI re: Dorgan Amdt No. 2000 )

To urge the President to release information regarding sources of foreign support for the 9-11 hijackers.

Motion Rejected

0.7%

0.8%

8.9%

59.3%

83.1%

39:56

0.595

0.792

(Daschle Amdt. No. 79 )

?

Amendment Rejected

0.7%

0.8%

10.0%

48.4%

84.4%

39:56

0.593

0.791

(Daschle Amdt. No. 939 )

To ensure that an affordable plan is available in all areas.

Amendment Rejected

80.9%

83.8%

46.1%

3.4%

0.4%

42:52

0.463

0.788

(Lott Amdt. No. 914 )

To require the Administrator of the FAA to conduct a study of safety standards at foreign repair stations.

Amendment Rejected

92.2%

96.2%

26.6%

49.3%

6.2%

52:44

0.427

0.784

(Motion To Table Boxer Amdt. No. 1753 )

To strike section 333 relating to a special judicial appeals process for cases involving timber harvesting in the Tongass National Forest.

Motion Agreed to

15.3%

18.8%

22.8%

94.6%

95.0%

54:43

0.514

0.783

(Reid Amdt. No. 1164 )

To provide support regarding the rural development crisis in Mexico.

Amendment Agreed to

8.0%

3.7%

72.8%

57.2%

92.9%

48:51

0.501

0.782

(Murray Amdt. No. 691 )

To restore a previous policy regarding restrictions on use of Department of Defense medical facilities.

To preserve the Federal Regulatory Commission's authority to protect the public interest prior to July 1, 2005.

Motion to Table Agreed to

2.4%

1.6%

47.6%

53.0%

86.5%

42:56

0.521

0.779

(Boxer Motion To Commit S. 3 To The Judiciary Committee With Instructions )

A bill to prohibit the procedure commonly known as partial-birth abortion.

Motion Rejected

11.1%

8.2%

20.5%

93.2%

88.1%

****

48:48

0.541

0.777

(Schuner AMDT. No. 1370 )

To increase the funding for discretionary grants for use in high-threat urban areas and decrease funding for information analysis and infrastructure protection, science and technology, and research and development.

Amendment Rejected

79.6%

93.1%

22.1%

21.3%

0.3%

43:53

0.438

0.772

(Motion To Table Boxer Amdt. No. 1141 )

To prohibit the application of certain restrictive eligibility requirements to foreign nongovernmental organizations with respect to the provision of assistance under part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.

Motion to Table Failed

99.3%

99.1%

90.1%

62.0%

16.7%

62:33

0.466

0.769

(Motion to Table Leahy Amdt. No. 2039 )

To remove certain provisions relating to administrative and judicial review.

Motion to Table Agreed to

83.4%

78.3%

77.3%

32.6%

1.3%

45:43

0.405

0.769

(Motion To Invoke Cloture On H.R. 2115, Conference Report. )

A bill to amend title 49, United States Code, to reauthorize programs for the Federal Aviation Administration, and for other purposes.

Cloture Motion Rejected

10.8%

3.6%

69.0%

63.5%

92.4%

49:47

0.468

0.768

(Motion To Waive C.B.A. RE: Murray Amdt. No. 258 )

To improve the availability of contraceptives for women.

Amendment Rejected

79.8%

93.1%

50.2%

5.0%

4.9%

45:52

0.436

0.767

(Motion To Table Reed Amdt. No. 1834 )

To increase the end strength of the Army and to structure the additional forces for constabulary duty.

Motion to Table Failed

14.3%

3.7%

67.0%

94.8%

90.5%

51:44

0.505

0.764

(Corzine Amdt. No. 1602 )

To restore cuts in student aid.

Amendment Agreed to

95.8%

80.8%

21.5%

58.7%

5.1%

51:45

0.399

0.763

(Inhofe Amdt. No. 86, As Modified )

To provide for a study by the National Academy of Sciences.

Amendment Agreed to

10.0%

3.1%

51.1%

44.2%

92.3%

47:51

0.481

0.763

(Rockefeller Amdt. No. 975, As Modified )

To make all Medicare beneficiaries eligible for Medicare prescription drug coverage.

Amendment Rejected

12.0%

8.5%

39.1%

95.8%

87.9%

49:45

0.514

0.762

(Motion To Waive CBA Daschle Amdt. No. 1734 As Modified Further. )

To provide additional funds for clinical services of the Indian Health Service, with an offset.

Motion Rejected

93.6%

93.2%

56.9%

69.2%

8.4%

55:44

0.450

0.761

(Motion to Table Feinstein Amdt. No. 876 As Modified )

To tighten oversight of energy markets.

Motion to Table Agreed to

3.2%

0.9%

8.4%

36.9%

83.9%

39:59

0.515

0.758

(Edwards Amdt. No. 1052 )

To strengthen protections for consumers against misleading direct-to-consumer drug advertising.

Amendment Rejected

0.5%

0.8%

8.7%

28.9%

82.4%

37:58

0.553

0.754

(Stabenow Amdt. No. 931 )

To require that the Medicare plan, to be known as the Medicare Guaranteed Option, be available to all eligible beneficiaries in every year.

Amendment Rejected

96.7%

98.5%

90.0%

61.9%

16.7%

61:31

0.410

0.750

(Motion to Table Harkin Amdt. No. 2045 )

To provide authority for title I, relative to hazardous fuels reduction on federal land.

Motion to Table Agreed to

98.7%

93.8%

87.0%

44.0%

19.0%

61:34

0.419

0.749

(Motion to Table Boxer Amdt. No. 2043 )

To increase the minimum percentage of funds allocated for authorized hazardous fuel reduction projects in the wildland-urban interface.

Amendment Agreed to

14.5%

7.5%

80.3%

67.3%

93.9%

52:48

0.451

0.744

(Boxer Amdt. No. 272. )

To prevent consideration of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in a fast-track budget reconciliation bill.

Amendment Agreed to

14.7%

13.0%

19.4%

79.1%

90.1%

50:46

0.501

0.743

(Motion To Waive: Specter Amdt. No. 1368 )

To increase the funding for discretionary grants for use in high-threat urban areas.

Motion Rejected

6.2%

4.2%

56.5%

48.3%

87.1%

44:51

0.495

0.742

(Reid Amdt. No. 1731 )

To prohibit the use of funds for initiating any new competitive sourcing studies.

Amendment Rejected

96.8%

99.6%

91.2%

41.4%

21.1%

62:34

0.447

0.739

(Motion To Table Durbin Amdt. No. 1277 )

To limit the availability of funds for the Intelligence Community Management Account pending a report on the development and use of intelligence relating to Iraq and Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Motion to Table Agreed to

0.4%

0.4%

8.2%

40.7%

78.8%

36:60

0.525

0.737

(Motion to Waive C.B.A. re: Bingaman Amdt. No. 2031 )

To provide the Secretary of Agriculture with the authority to borrow funds from the Treasury to pay for firefighting costs that exceed funds available and to provide funding to conduct hazardous fuels reduction and burned area restoration projects on non-Federal lands in and around communities.

Motion Rejected

1.3%

0.8%

30.6%

58.5%

78.8%

38:59

0.495

0.736

(Byrd Amdt. No. 1794 )

To strike $15.2 billion of the $20.3 billion in Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Funds, leaving $5.1 billion for training and equipping the Iraqi Defense Corps and Iraqi national security force and for other public safety and justice purposes.

Amendment Rejected

96.6%

99.0%

91.5%

61.3%

19.0%

62:32

0.416

0.732

(Motion to Table Murray Amdt. No. 2030 )

To ensure protection of old-growth stands.

Motion to Table Agreed to

14.5%

14.4%

45.7%

95.8%

88.1%

51:47

0.440

0.727

(Bayh Amdt. No. 1871 )

To require that funds for reconstruction in Iraq be used for certain purposes.

Amendment Agreed to

14.1%

6.8%

54.5%

87.6%

86.7%

49:46

0.423

0.722

(Motion To Waive CBA Reed Amdt. No. 1595 )

To provide funding for home energy assistance needs under the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981.

Motion Rejected

1.3%

0.9%

27.1%

17.8%

81.8%

37:62

0.457

0.719

(Kerry Amdt. No. 397 )

To provide for a $150 billion revenue stimulus for fiscal years 2003 and 2004 without adding to the long-term debt.

Amendment Rejected

96.9%

94.6%

80.6%

82.4%

16.0%

61:39

0.464

0.719

(Motion To Waive CBA RE: H. R. 1 - Conference Report )

An act to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a voluntary prescription drug benefit under the medicare program and to strengthen and improve the medicare program, and for other purposes.

Motion Agreed to

99.7%

99.5%

93.4%

73.7%

21.6%

65:34

0.498

0.719

(Motion To Table Lautenberg Amdt. No. 1868 )

To prohibit the use of funds for any contract or other financial agreement or arrangement with any entity that pays compensation in the form of deferred salary to certain United States Government officials.

Motion to Table Agreed to

5.6%

6.7%

21.9%

30.3%

84.5%

41:56

0.444

0.716

(Feinstein AMDT. No. 2083 )

To improve the operation of energy markets.

Amendment Rejected

0.5%

0.5%

8.7%

41.0%

76.3%

35:65

0.522

0.714

(Motion to Waive C.B.A. re: Graham Amdt. No. 617 )

In the nature of a substitute.

Motion Rejected

16.8%

8.8%

73.9%

59.3%

93.0%

52:46

0.377

0.712

(Harkin Amdt. No. 260 )

To express the sense of the Senate concerning the decision of the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade.

Amendment Agreed to

23.6%

13.5%

46.3%

91.4%

93.2%

56:41

0.484

0.708

(Lautenberg Amdt. No. 893 )

To prohibit the Secretary of Transportation from transfering certain air traffic control functions to nongovernmental entities.

Amendment Agreed to

18.7%

9.0%

59.5%

89.6%

88.6%

52:43

0.418

0.702

(Motion To Waive CBA Re: Daschle Amdt. No. 1568 )

To provide funding for rural education.

Motion Rejected

4.5%

19.1%

76.8%

53.6%

86.2%

46:50

0.419

0.699

(Edwards Amdt. No. 67 )

To require a study of the final rule relating to prevention of significant deterioration and nonattainment new source review to determine the effects of the final rule on air pollution and human health.

Amendment Rejected

99.5%

92.7%

93.0%

55.8%

23.9%

64:31

0.402

0.698

(Motion to table Byrd Amendment No. 1244 )

To prohibit excessive deployments overseas of members of the Guard and Reserves.

Motion to Table Agreed to

64.5%

87.9%

54.4%

3.7%

0.3%

37:61

0.434

0.695

(Motion To Waive C.B.A, Kyl Amdt. No. 575 )

To further enhance the denial of deduction for certain fines, penalties, and other amounts.

To reduce the amount appropriated for reconstruction in Iraq by $600,000,000 and to increase the amount available to the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps by $50,000,000, the amount available for Afghanistan by $400,000,000, and the amount available for Liberia.

Motion to Table Agreed to

1.2%

0.5%

28.3%

41.6%

74.2%

35:60

0.381

0.679

(Feinstein Amdt. No. 261 )

In the nature of a substitute.

Amendment Rejected

1.8%

8.8%

18.9%

28.4%

78.0%

37:63

0.424

0.678

(Motion to Waive C.B.A. re: Edwards Amdt. No. 662 )

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1996 to close the "janitors insurance" tax loophole.

Motion Rejected

89.7%

90.2%

78.8%

61.6%

16.6%

57:34

0.288

0.675

(Motion to Table Cantwell Amdt. No. 2038, as modified )

To require the Comptroller General to study the costs and benefits of the analysis of alternatives in environmental assessments and environmental impact statements.

Motion to Table Agreed to

28.8%

20.8%

83.1%

94.3%

97.6%

62:38

0.428

0.673

(Motion to Table Nickles Amdt. No. 527 )

To exclude 25 percent of gain on sales or exchanges of land or water interests to any nonprofit entity for any charitable purpose.

Motion to Table Agreed to

99.7%

99.3%

91.0%

71.1%

26.9%

67:32

0.454

0.673

(Motion to Table Corzine Amdt. No. 1882 )

To establish a National Commission on the Development and Use of Intelligence Related to Iraq.

Motion to Table Agreed to

0.7%

7.4%

9.1%

50.5%

72.6%

35:59

0.406

0.672

(Feinstein Amdt. No. 537 )

In the nature of a substitute.

Amendment Rejected

71.1%

89.9%

69.8%

23.0%

7.1%

44:52

0.318

0.671

(Inhofe Amdt. No. 896 )

To establish age limitations for airmen.

Amendment Rejected

27.0%

11.8%

13.6%

90.9%

88.6%

54:42

0.422

0.667

(Motion to Waive C.B.A. re: Dorgan Amdt. No. 1553 )

To provide additional funding for the Impact Aid Program.

Motion Rejected

84.4%

89.6%

15.9%

69.1%

8.4%

50:48

0.318

0.666

(Motion To Three Feingold AMDT No. 1416 )

To protect the public and investors from abusive affiliate, associate company, and subsidiary company transactions.

Motion to Table Agreed to

94.7%

97.3%

30.3%

48.7%

22.4%

60:38

0.337

0.662

(Motion To Table Durbin Amdt. No. 259 As Modified )

In the nature of a substitute.

Motion to Table Agreed to

96.9%

99.2%

92.0%

79.5%

25.7%

66:31

0.373

0.655

(Motion to Table Pryor Amdt. No. 981 )

To provide equal access to competitive global prescription medicine prices for American purchasers.

Motion to Table Agreed to

22.6%

18.7%

66.2%

76.9%

90.3%

55:40

0.368

0.646

(S. J. Res. 17 )

?

Joint Resolution Passed

6.8%

12.1%

77.3%

23.3%

83.3%

43:55

0.332

0.643

(Lieberman Amdt. No. 2028 )

To provide for a program of scientific research on abrupt climate change, to accelerate the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States by establishing a market-driven system of greenhouse gas tradeable allowances, to limit greenhouse gas emissions in the United States and reduce dependence upon foreign oil, and ensure benefits to consumers from the trading in such allowances.

Amendment Rejected

94.8%

85.0%

81.7%

80.9%

20.9%

61:32

0.314

0.638

(Motion To Table Feingold Amdt. No. 2065 )

To provide for data-mining reports to Congress.

Motion to Table Agreed to

96.4%

98.6%

38.1%

77.2%

25.9%

64:33

0.308

0.619

(S. 3 As Amended )

A bill to prohibit the procedure commonly known as partial-birth abortion.

Bill Passed

8.7%

2.8%

33.0%

71.1%

70.1%

38:59

0.298

0.617

(Motion To Table Feinstein Amdt. No. 1060 )

To provide for an income-related increase in the part B premium for individuals with income in excess of $75,000 and married couples with income in excess of $150,000.

Motion to Table Failed

99.7%

99.3%

96.0%

80.4%

32.5%

70:30

0.448

0.615

(Specter Amdt No. 569 )

To urge the Senate Finance Committee and the Joint Economic Committee to hold hearings and consider legislation providing for a flat tax.

Amendment Agreed to

93.1%

81.2%

23.4%

78.5%

18.7%

57:40

0.257

0.604

(Motion To Invoke Cloture - H.R. 6 Conference Report )

A bill to enhance energy conservation and research and development, to provide for security and diversity in the energy supply for the American people, and for other purposes.

Cloture Motion Rejected

97.3%

98.8%

94.1%

91.5%

31.0%

69:29

0.349

0.597

(H.J.Res. 2 )

?

Joint Resolution Passed

10.0%

31.3%

78.5%

35.1%

84.6%

48:50

0.248

0.593

(Wyden Amdt. No. 875 )

To strike the provision relating to deployment of new nuclear power plants.

Amendment Rejected

91.8%

63.3%

55.5%

82.1%

15.8%

54:44

0.245

0.588

(H.R. 1 Conference Report )

An act to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a voluntary prescription drug benefit under the medicare program and to strengthen and improve the medicare program, and for other purposes.

Conference Report Agreed to

6.1%

8.0%

31.1%

31.1%

71.1%

36:61

0.314

0.585

(Feingold Amdt. No. 200 )

To restrict funds made available for IMET assistance for Indonesian military personnel to "Expanded International Military Education and Training" assistance unless certain conditions are met.

Amendment Rejected

36.8%

34.3%

90.4%

96.9%

97.4%

67:32

0.388

0.580

(Dorgan Amdt. No. 865 )

To require that the hydrogen commercialization plan of the Department of Energy include a description of activities to support certain hydrogen technology deployment goals.

Amendment Agreed to

54.6%

87.5%

9.3%

4.3%

2.5%

33:65

0.320

0.580

(Sessions Amdt. No. 1011 )

To express the sense of the Senate that the Committee on Finance should hold hearing regarding permitting States to provide health benefits to legal immigrants under Medicaid and SCHIP as part of the reauthorization of the temporary assistance for needy families program.

Amendment Rejected

94.4%

96.7%

38.1%

77.2%

28.2%

64:34

0.285

0.580

(S. 3 Conference Report )

A bill to prohibit the procedure commonly known as partial-birth abortion.

Conference Report Agreed to

93.1%

97.0%

84.6%

73.3%

30.9%

66:25

0.287

0.580

(Confirmation: Deborah L. Cook, Of Ohio, To Be U.S. Circuit Judge For The Sixth Circuit )

Deborah L. Cook, of Ohio, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit, vice Alan E. Norris, retired.

Nomination Confirmed

0.3%

0.4%

4.5%

13.3%

63.7%

28:70

0.370

0.575

(Dayton Amdt. No. 409 )

To provide full and mandatory funding for IDEA beginning in FY2004.

Amendment Rejected

0.6%

0.7%

6.9%

60.0%

57.3%

28:67

0.347

0.565

(Durbin Amdt. No. 1611 )

To prohibit funds appropriated in this Act from being used by the Department of Education to enforce any requirement under section 1116 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, or to implement penalties or sanctions under part A of title I of such Act, if the amount appropriated to carry out such part A for fiscal year 2004 is less than $18,500,000,000.

Amendment Rejected

70.1%

54.9%

77.5%

18.8%

10.0%

40:57

0.232

0.555

(Motion to Suspend Rule XVI re: Lugar Amdt. No. 1974 )

To authorize appropriations for Foreign Relations and for Foreign Assistance, and to authorize Millennium Challenge Assistance.

Motion Rejected

97.0%

99.5%

93.1%

91.3%

35.8%

71:26

0.332

0.554

(Grassley Amdt. No. 1092 as Modified )

To evaluate alternative payment and delivery systems.

Amendment Agreed to

99.2%

92.7%

93.1%

59.1%

42.6%

72:24

0.295

0.527

(Confirmation: Ross Owen Swimmer, Of Oklahoma, To Be Special Trustee, Office or Speical Trustee For American Indians )

Ross Owen Swimmer, of Oklahoma, to be Special Trustee, Office of Special Trustee for American Indians, Department of the Interior, vice Thomas N. Slonaker, resigned.

Nomination Confirmed

14.6%

19.4%

80.6%

16.6%

77.4%

44:54

0.213

0.508

(Graham Amdt. No. 884 )

To strike the provision requiring the Secretary of the Interior to conduct an inventory and analysis of oil and natural gas resources beneath all of the waters of the outer Continental Shelf.

Amendment Rejected

49.8%

25.8%

74.1%

97.5%

95.2%

69:29

0.344

0.506

(Bingaman Amdt. No. 1065 )

To update, beginning in 2009, the asset or resource test used for purposes of determining the eligibility of low-income beneficiaries for premium and cost-sharing subsidies.

Amendment Agreed to

99.6%

99.4%

92.8%

73.3%

45.5%

75:25

0.365

0.505

(Motion to Waive C.B.A. re: Ensign Amdt. No. 622, As Modified )

To encourage the investment of foreign earnings within the United States for productive business investments and job creation.

Motion Agreed to

3.9%

6.8%

64.8%

16.1%

63.3%

32:65

0.253

0.498

(Durbin AMDT. No. 1385 )

To amend title 49, United States Code, to improve the system for enhancing automobile fuel efficiency.

Amendment Rejected

47.1%

16.3%

54.2%

93.8%

88.4%

63:31

0.303

0.497

(Motion To Waive RE: Dodd Amdt. No. 1928 )

To fund the Election Assistance Commission for fiscal year 2004.

Motion Agreed to

95.0%

90.3%

92.3%

89.2%

38.5%

70:24

0.268

0.494

(Motion To Table Feinstein Amdt. No. 2054 )

To create a national opt-out standard for affiliate sharing to prevent personal customer information from being shared by affiliated companies.

Motion to Table Agreed to

2.9%

0.4%

6.5%

16.1%

56.3%

26:69

0.255

0.493

(Edwards Amdt. No. 985 As Modified Further )

To strengthen protections for consumers against misleading direct-to-consumer drug advertising.

Amendment Rejected

51.8%

85.8%

54.5%

3.6%

13.9%

38:61

0.191

0.483

(McCain Amdt. No. 481 )

To remove unauthorized and earmarked appropriations.

Amendment Rejected

40.8%

25.8%

78.6%

79.2%

88.2%

62:33

0.239

0.481

(Motion To Table McCain Amdt. No. 44 )

To strike section 211 of Division B.

Motion to Table Agreed to

94.0%

97.8%

74.4%

86.3%

40.8%

71:24

0.233

0.479

(Motion To Table Byrd Amdt. No. 1383 )

To rescind $1,100,000,000 of the amounts appropriated for procurement and research, development, test and evaluation, and to appropriate $1,100,000,000 for fighting AIDS/HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria.

Motion to Table Agreed to

55.7%

14.7%

57.8%

96.1%

90.6%

67:26

0.246

0.464

(Kohl Amdt. No. 455 )

To provide humanitarian food assistance in connection with U.S. activities in Iraq.

(Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Conference Report to Accompany H.R. 1 )

An act to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a voluntary prescription drug benefit under the medicare program and to strengthen and improve the medicare program, and for other purposes.

Cloture Motion Agreed to

55.4%

65.4%

41.3%

3.5%

13.9%

36:59

0.138

0.445

(Motion To Table Dorgan Amdt. No. 1900 )

To prohibit the enforcement of the ban on travel to Cuba.

Motion to Table Failed

93.3%

75.5%

83.9%

80.3%

39.4%

67:30

0.164

0.441

(Motion to Table McCain Amdt. No. 230 )

To reduce the total construction general account in the Corps of Engineers, Flood Control, Mississippi River and Tributaries, etc., account by $14,750,000 and restore the appropriation for the Yazoo Basin Backwater Pumping Plant to the $250,000 level recommended by the President.

Motion to Table Agreed to

93.6%

98.3%

72.6%

54.8%

49.8%

73: 1

0.206

0.433

(Motion To Instruct Sergeant At Arms )

Miguel A. Estrada, of Virginia, to be United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, vice Patricia M. Wald, retired.

Motion for Attendance Agreed to

10.5%

21.1%

87.0%

16.4%

65.6%

38:57

0.129

0.423

(Boxer Amdt. No. 856 )

To provide for equal liability treatment of vehicle fuels and fuel additives.

Amendment Rejected

95.0%

97.6%

94.7%

86.1%

50.5%

76:20

0.204

0.412

(Conference Report, H.J.Res.2 )

?

Conference Report Agreed to

1.1%

0.4%

26.2%

12.5%

47.4%

22:77

0.248

0.411

(Hollings Amdt. No. 265 )

To eliminate tax cuts.

Amendment Rejected

81.7%

88.8%

93.7%

85.0%

38.7%

65:32

0.125

0.404

(H. R. 2738 )

A bill to implement the United States-Chile Free Trade Agreement.

Bill Passed

58.6%

50.0%

40.3%

19.9%

14.3%

36:58

0.111

0.404

(Motion To Table Daschle Amdt. No. 2078 )

Expressing the sense of the Senate regarding country of origin labeling requirements.

Motion Rejected

39.5%

40.9%

92.1%

69.9%

84.5%

62:28

0.135

0.399

(Dorgan Amdt. No. 946 as amended )

To provide greater access to affordable pharmaceuticals.

Amendment Agreed to

41.1%

8.5%

53.0%

47.1%

76.0%

52:43

0.135

0.396

(Motion to Waive the CBA Specter Amdt. No. 1622 )

To increase funding for the National Institutes of Health.

Motion Rejected

17.4%

13.5%

72.8%

42.9%

60.1%

38:56

0.100

0.385

(Leahy Amdt. No. 2119 )

To restrict the use of funds for certain conservation programs.

Amendment Rejected

81.9%

89.9%

86.5%

85.4%

41.0%

66:32

0.125

0.384

(H. R. 2729 )

A bill to implement the United States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement.

Bill Passed

92.1%

91.5%

94.8%

94.3%

49.1%

74:19

0.211

0.379

(Confirmantion Jay S. Bybee, Of Nevada, To Be U.S. Circuit Judge )

Jay S. Bybee, of Nevada, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, vice Procter R. Hug, Jr., retired.

Nomination Confirmed

77.3%

18.4%

83.9%

98.9%

99.9%

80:19

0.269

0.378

(Rockefeller Amdt. No. 275 )

To express the sense of the Senate concerning State fiscal relief.

Amendment Agreed to

91.7%

96.1%

74.1%

56.6%

54.2%

74: 1

0.158

0.374

(Motion To Instruct Sergeant At Arms )

Miguel A. Estrada, of Virginia, to be United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, vice Patricia M. Wald, retired.

Motion for Attendance Agreed to

97.0%

99.2%

95.8%

68.0%

59.9%

80:14

0.210

0.367

(H.R. 1904, As Amended )

An act to improve the capacity of the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to conduct hazardous fuels reduction projects on National Forest System lands and Bureau of Land Management lands aimed at protecting communities, watersheds, and certain other at-risk lands from catastrophic wildfire, to enhance efforts to protect watersheds and address threats to forest and rangeland health, including catastrophic wildfire, across the landscape, and for other purposes.

Bill Passed

33.8%

53.1%

17.8%

1.4%

2.4%

21:75

0.171

0.357

(Hagel Amdt. No. 1026 As Modified )

To provide Medicare beneficiaries with a drug discount card that ensures access to affordable prescription drugs.

Amendment Rejected

73.8%

27.5%

82.9%

98.4%

97.6%

79:21

0.221

0.357

(Bond Amdt. No. 358 )

To make available funds for certain transportation programs.

Amendment Agreed to

96.7%

97.9%

75.3%

68.3%

59.7%

79:18

0.183

0.351

(Motion to Table Hollings Amdt. No. 479 )

To express the sense of the Senate on paying the costs of the war with Iraq.

Motion to Table Agreed to

68.4%

45.1%

96.5%

98.6%

95.3%

79:19

0.254

0.318

(Boxer Amdt. No. 1331 )

To require a classified report to Congress on the security costs incurred by State and local government law enforcement personnel in each state in complying with requests and requirements of the United States Secret Service to provide protective services and transportation for foreign and domestic officials.

Amendment Agreed to

73.5%

36.6%

76.5%

98.6%

92.9%

78:18

0.209

0.297

(Bingaman Amdt. No. 1174 )

To express the sense of Congress on funding for assistant to combat AIDS globally.

Amendment Agreed to

70.2%

41.5%

92.1%

98.6%

92.9%

78:17

0.185

0.297

(Boxer Amdt. No. 2026 )

To enact the Disaster Air Quality Monitoring Act.

Amendment Agreed to

94.2%

99.7%

94.4%

86.2%

64.6%

82:15

0.202

0.287

(Motion To Table Byrd Amdt. No. 1886 )

To prohibit the use of funds for the involuntary deployment overseas in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom of members of the National Guard and Reserves who have been involuntarily deployed for more than six months during the preceding six years.

Motion to Table Agreed to

64.0%

35.2%

93.6%

96.1%

83.8%

71:21

0.219

0.271

(Motion To Table Sessions Amdt. No. 1202 )

To eliminate the additional amount for programs under the National and Community Service Act of 1990.

Motion Agreed to

99.9%

99.8%

99.4%

97.7%

72.2%

88: 8

0.209

0.248

(Confirmation: Michael O. Leavitt, of Utah to be Administrator of the E.P.A. )

Michael O. Leavitt, of Utah, to be Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Nomination Confirmed

74.5%

50.5%

98.0%

98.6%

93.0%

81:15

0.186

0.241

(Byrd Amdt.No. 1281 )

To state the sense of Congress on funding of ongoing overseas military operations, including overseas contingency operations.

Amendment Agreed to

97.1%

99.8%

97.6%

93.0%

72.9%

87:12

0.225

0.227

(S. 1689 As Amended )

An original bill making emergency supplemental appropriations for Iraq and Afghanistan security and reconstruction for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.

(Confirmation Carlos T.Bea, Of California To Be U.S. Circuit Judge For The Ninth Circuit. )

Carlos T. Bea, of California, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit.

Nomination Confirmed

99.1%

82.8%

86.1%

97.8%

70.0%

84:14

0.093

0.209

(H. R. 6 As Amended )

A bill to enhance energy conservation and research and development, to provide for security and diversity in the energy supply for the American people, and for other purposes.

Bill Passed

97.1%

92.7%

95.4%

98.3%

72.3%

86:12

0.107

0.206

(Grassley Amdt. No. 594 )

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to enhance beneficiary access to quality health care services in rural areas under the medicare program.

Amendment Agreed to

91.3%

97.5%

74.4%

70.7%

75.9%

84: 0

0.060

0.166

(S. 151, As Amended )

An Act to prevent child abduction and the sexual exploitation of children, and for other purposes.

Bill Passed

88.4%

44.0%

97.5%

98.6%

93.0%

85:10

0.130

0.166

(Graham Amdt. No. 696 As Modified )

In the nature of a substitute.

Amendment Agreed to

97.7%

98.4%

97.8%

98.5%

79.2%

90: 4

0.116

0.165

(S. 113 As Amended )

A bill to exclude United States persons from the definition of "foreign power" under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 relating to international terrorism.

Bill Passed

96.5%

94.8%

97.4%

92.5%

79.8%

89:10

0.122

0.148

(Gregg Amdt. No. 377 )

To increase funding for part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act by reducing spending on other government programs by a commensurate amount.

Amendment Agreed to

9.5%

21.2%

20.0%

0.6%

0.1%

7:87

0.099

0.131

(Ensign Amdt. No. 1585n )

To provide an additional $100,000,000 to carry out the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program under B of title IV of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.

Amendment Rejected

24.4%

79.1%

43.7%

6.7%

29.9%

34:62

0.043

0.128

(Feinstein Amdt. No. 844 )

To authorize the Governors of the States to elect to participate in the renewable fuel program.

Amendment Rejected

62.1%

48.0%

21.4%

76.3%

67.7%

62:34

0.058

0.127

(Motion To Table McCain Amdt. No. 214 )

To require completion of the feasibility study required by Public Law 105-245, and the other requirements of that law relating to construction of an emergency outlet at Devils Lake, North Dakota, before any appropriated funds are spent for the project.

Motion to Table Agreed to

83.6%

44.3%

83.2%

91.9%

84.6%

79:16

0.035

0.124

(Motion To Table McCain Amdt. No. 1270 )

To prohibit the use of funds for certain programs, projects, and activities.

Motion to Table Agreed to

99.9%

100.0%

99.7%

94.7%

86.6%

94: 0

0.189

0.123

(H.R. 2115 )

A bill to amend title 49, United States Code, to reauthorize programs for the Federal Aviation Administration, and for other purposes.

Bill Passed

97.2%

99.7%

97.2%

90.2%

85.0%

92: 0

0.101

0.123

(S. 121 )

A bill to enhance the operation of the AMBER Alert communications network in order to facilitate the recovery of abducted children, to provide for enhanced notification on highways of alerts and information on such children, and for other purposes.

Bill Passed

99.9%

99.9%

97.7%

97.3%

86.4%

94: 0

0.180

0.121

(Confirmation Thomas J. Ridge, of Pennsylvania, to be Secretary of Homeland Security. )

Thomas J. Ridge, of Pennsylvania, to be Secretary of Homeland Security. (New Position)

Nomination Confirmed

92.0%

91.6%

98.8%

93.0%

79.7%

87: 2

0.047

0.111

(H.R. 2691 Conference Report )

A bill making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.

Conference Report Agreed to

90.9%

94.3%

96.8%

77.1%

81.8%

87: 1

0.039

0.109

(Motion to Proceed to the Consideration of the Conference Report to Accompany H.R. 1588 )

To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2004 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.

Motion to Proceed Agreed to

94.3%

99.9%

99.4%

94.9%

84.2%

91: 0

0.060

0.107

(Confirmation Marcia Crone Of Texas To Be U.S. District Judge )

Marcia A. Crone, of Texas, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Texas.

Nomination Confirmed

97.0%

93.1%

98.6%

97.5%

83.9%

91: 0

0.060

0.107

(H. R. 2559 As Amended )

A bill making appropriations for military construction, family housing, and base realignment and closure for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.

Bill Passed

95.0%

98.2%

98.7%

89.4%

84.9%

91: 0

0.059

0.106

(Confirmation Earl Leroy Yeakel, of Texas, To Be U.S. District Judge )

Earl Leroy Yeakel III, of Texas, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Texas, vice James R. Nowlin, retired.

Nomination Confirmed

97.4%

99.7%

97.8%

77.7%

88.7%

93: 3

0.088

0.105

(Dayton Amdt. No. 957 )

To provide that prescription drug benefits for any Member of Congress who is enrolled in a health benefits plan under chapter 89 of title 5, United States Code, may not exceed the level of prescription drug benefits passed in the 1st session of the 108th Congress, and for other purposes.

Amendment Agreed to

100.0%

99.9%

99.7%

95.0%

88.9%

95: 3

0.156

0.103

(Conference Report on H.R. 1588 )

To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2004 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.

Conference Report Agreed to

100.0%

99.9%

99.5%

99.5%

88.4%

95: 2

0.153

0.103

(H.R. 2622 As Amended )

A bill to amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act, to prevent identity theft, improve resolution of consumer disputes, improve the accuracy of consumer records, make improvements in the use of, and consumer access to, credit information, and for other purposes.

Bill Passed

99.9%

99.9%

99.3%

99.2%

88.5%

95: 0

0.175

0.102

(Enzi Amdt. No. 932 as modified and amended )

To improve disclosure requirements and to increase beneficiary choices.

Amendment Agreed to

80.3%

93.7%

91.4%

88.6%

73.3%

80: 0

0.014

0.095

(Confirmation, Cormac J. Carney, of California, to be United States District Judge )

Cormac J. Carney, of California, to be United States District Judge for the Central District of California, vice Carlos R. Moreno, resigned.

Nomination Confirmed

94.8%

77.6%

99.6%

99.7%

100.0%

95: 5

0.163

0.095

(S.476, as Amended. )

An original bill to provide incentives for charitable contributions by individuals and businesses, to improve the public disclosure of activities of exempt organizations, and to enhance the ability of low-income Americans to gain financial security by building assets, and for other purposes

Bill Passed

95.5%

75.7%

99.5%

99.9%

100.0%

95: 3

0.139

0.095

(Collins Amdt. No. 596 )

To provide temporary State and local fiscal relief.

Amendment Agreed to

80.4%

18.8%

72.8%

94.8%

70.1%

68:28

0.008

0.094

(Frist Amdt. No. 850 As Amended )

To eliminate methyl tertiary butyl ether from the United States fuel supply, to increase production and use of renewable fuel, and to increase the Nation's energy independence.

Amendment Agreed to

93.3%

82.7%

91.0%

98.7%

79.0%

86: 0

0.021

0.091

(Confirmation Dale S. Fischer, of California, to be U.S. District Judge )

Dale S. Fischer, of California, to be United States District Judge for the Central District of California.

Nomination Confirmed

97.2%

99.9%

99.9%

99.3%

88.3%

94: 0

0.076

0.086

(Confirmation Kim Gibson, of Pennsylvania, to be U.S. District Judge )

Kim R. Gibson, of Pennsylvania, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

Nomination Confirmed

97.2%

99.9%

98.7%

97.6%

88.6%

94: 1

0.070

0.084

(Confirmation Steven M. Colloton, of Iowa, to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit )

Steven M. Colloton, of Iowa, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit.

Nomination Confirmed

95.3%

97.5%

97.3%

99.0%

86.2%

92: 0

0.044

0.084

(Confirmation David G. Campbell, of Arizona, to be U.S. District Judge )

David G. Campbell, of Arizona, to be United States District Judge for the District of Arizona, vice a new position created by Public Law 107-273, approved November 5, 2002.

Nomination Confirmed

97.5%

99.0%

99.5%

99.6%

88.4%

94: 0

0.073

0.084

(Confirmation: S. James Otero, Of California, To Be U.S. District Judge )

S. James Otero, of California, to be United States District Judge for the Central District of California, vice Richard A. Paez, elevated.

Nomination Confirmed

97.1%

99.9%

99.1%

99.2%

88.5%

94: 1

0.160

0.083

(Gregg Amdt. No. 945 )

To ensure that there is competition in the pharmaceutical industry and increased access to affordable drugs.

Amendment Agreed to

99.9%

100.0%

99.9%

99.5%

90.7%

96: 0

0.169

0.082

(Reed Amdt. No. 751 As Amended )

To modify the scope of the prohibition on research and development of low-yield nuclear weapons.

Amendment Agreed to

59.8%

50.7%

38.7%

66.1%

64.0%

60:34

0.005

0.082

(Motion To Table Feingold Amdt. No. 1904 )

To provide that Members of Congress shall not receive a cost of living adjustment in pay during fiscal year 2003.

Motion to Table Agreed to

85.6%

26.9%

67.5%

44.6%

62.8%

65:32

0.006

0.081

(Specter Amdt. No. 515 )

To increase funds for Protection and Preparedness of high threat areas under the Office for Domestic Preparedness.

Amendment Agreed to

73.8%

73.7%

89.2%

51.9%

68.8%

71: 0

0.006

0.078

(Confirmation R. Hewitt PAte, Of Virginia, To Be An Assistant Attorney General )

(Confirmation Glen E. Conrad Of Virginia, To Be U.S. District Judge For The Western District. )

Glen E. Conrad, of Virginia, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Virginia.

Nomination Confirmed

92.9%

91.9%

88.6%

91.9%

84.5%

89: 0

0.019

0.071

(Confirmation Henry F. Ford Of South Carolina To Be U.S. District Judge )

Henry F. Floyd, of South Carolina, to be United States District Judge for the District of South Carolina.

Nomination Confirmed

92.2%

98.4%

99.2%

97.9%

86.1%

91: 0

0.024

0.069

(Confirmation Cecilia M. Altonga Of Florida, To Be United States District Judge )

Cecilia M. Altonaga, of Florida, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Florida, vice Shelby Highsmith, retired.

Nomination Confirmed

92.7%

94.7%

75.9%

78.4%

86.3%

89: 4

0.019

0.068

(H.R. 1828 As Amended )

A bill to halt Syrian support for terrorism, end its occupation of Lebanon, stop its development of weapons of mass destruction, cease its illegal importation of Iraqi oil and illegal shipments of weapons and other military items to Iraq, and by so doing hold Syria accountable for the serious international security problems it has caused in the Middle East, and for other purposes.

Bill Passed

93.2%

95.7%

99.4%

99.5%

85.9%

91: 0

0.023

0.068

(Confirmation John R. Adams, Of Ohio, To Be U.S. Ditrict Judge )

John R. Adams, of Ohio, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio, vice George Washington White, retired.

Nomination Confirmed

92.8%

97.4%

95.9%

98.9%

86.0%

91: 0

0.023

0.068

(Confirmation Gregory L. Frost, Of Ohio, To Be U.S. District Judge )

Gregory L. Frost, of Ohio, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio, vice George C. Smith, retired.

Nomination Confirmed

95.2%

90.5%

98.9%

95.4%

86.5%

91: 0

0.022

0.066

(Confirmation Robert A. Junell, Of Texas, To Be U.S. District Judge )

Robert A. Junell, of Texas, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Texas, vice Hipolito Frank Garcia, deceased.

Nomination Confirmed

94.7%

99.1%

98.6%

96.4%

88.7%

93: 1

0.039

0.066

(H.R. 2555 As Amended )

A bill making appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.

Bill Passed

37.7%

38.3%

54.6%

61.1%

43.4%

42:53

0.005

0.066

(Dorgan Amdt. No. 849 )

To repeal the authorities and requirements for a base closure round in 2005.

Amendment Rejected

94.3%

99.9%

99.4%

95.0%

88.9%

93: 0

0.033

0.066

(Confirmation Ronald A. White , Of Oklahoma, To Be U.S District Judge )

Ronald A. White, of Oklahoma, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Oklahoma.

Nomination Confirmed

97.2%

99.9%

99.8%

98.3%

90.7%

95: 0

0.060

0.065

(S. 1053 as amended )

A bill to prohibit discrimination on the basis of genetic information with respect to health insurance and employment.

Bill Passed

99.1%

99.9%

78.4%

99.0%

90.7%

95: 2

0.094

0.065

(Graham (SC) Amdt. No. 1806 As Modified )

To express the sense of Congress that the removal of the Government of Saddam Hussein has enhanced the security of Israel and other United States allies.

Amendment Agreed to

99.9%

93.0%

99.8%

99.3%

90.7%

95: 1

0.059

0.064

(Thomas Amdt. No. 1923 )

To substitute a requirement for an annual report on competitive sourcing activities on lists required under the Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act of 1998 that are performed for executive agencies by Federal Government sources, and for other purposes.

Amendment Agreed to

99.5%

94.6%

96.8%

99.5%

90.7%

95: 0

0.056

0.063

(Confirmation Dana Makoto Sabraw, of California, To Be U.S. District Judge )

Dana Makoto Sabraw, of California, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of California.

Nomination Confirmed

99.5%

94.6%

96.8%

99.5%

90.7%

95: 0

0.056

0.063

(H.R. 2658 Conference Report )

A bill making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.

Bill Passed

99.5%

94.6%

96.8%

99.5%

90.7%

95: 0

0.056

0.063

(H.R. 3161 )

A bill to ratify the authority of the Federal Trade Commission to establish a do-not-call registry.

Bill Passed

90.3%

95.3%

97.1%

73.6%

87.2%

89: 1

0.040

0.063

(DeWine Amdt. No. 1966 )

To increase assistance to combat HIV/AIDS.

Amendment Agreed to

100.0%

100.0%

99.9%

99.7%

93.0%

97: 1

0.143

0.062

(Cochran Amdt. No. 1828 )

Of a perfecting nature.

Amendment Agreed to

100.0%

100.0%

99.9%

99.5%

93.0%

97: 0

0.161

0.062

(Byrd Amdt. No. 1846 )

To modify the report requirements with respect to the Coalition Provisional Authority.

Amendment Agreed to

100.0%

100.0%

99.9%

99.5%

93.0%

97: 0

0.161

0.062

(Confirmation: Roger W. Titus, of Maryland, To Be U.S. District Judge )

Roger W. Titus, of Maryland, to be United States District Judge for the District of Maryland.

Nomination Confirmed

100.0%

100.0%

99.9%

99.8%

93.0%

97: 0

0.160

0.062

(Confirmation Thomas A. Varlan, Of Tennessee, To Be U.S. District Judge )

Thomas A. Varlan, of Tennessee, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee, vice Robert Leon Jordan, retired.

Nomination Confirmed

100.0%

99.9%

99.3%

99.5%

93.1%

97: 0

0.154

0.061

(S. 877, As Amended )

A bill to regulate interstate commerce by imposing limitations and penalties on the transmission of unsolicited commercial electronic mail via the Internet.

Bill Passed

12.7%

45.5%

41.4%

4.8%

32.2%

26:69

0.006

0.059

(Schumer Amdt No. 853 )

To exclude Petroleum Administration for Defense Districts I, IV, and V from the renewable fuel program.

Amendment Rejected

91.5%

45.8%

83.0%

96.4%

70.0%

76:21

0.005

0.058

(S. 1 As Amended )

A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a voluntary prescription drug benefit under the Medicare program and to strengthen and improve the Medicare program, and for other purposes.

Bill Passed

89.5%

99.0%

96.0%

99.4%

97.6%

95: 0

0.041

0.054

(Treaty Document 107-8 Resolution Of Ratification )

The Treaty Between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Strategic Offensive Reductions, Signed at Moscow on May 24, 2002

Resolution of Ratification Agreed to

87.5%

97.3%

94.1%

87.9%

84.9%

88: 1

0.020

0.053

(Confirmation: Michael Chertoff, of New Jersey, to be U.S. Circuit Judge )

Michael Chertoff, of New Jersey, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, vice Morton I. Greenberg, retired.

Nomination Confirmed

88.4%

87.3%

94.9%

92.8%

82.1%

86: 0

0.007

0.052

(Confirmation: S.Maurice Hicks, Jr., Of Louisiana, To Be U.S. District Judge )

S. Maurice Hicks, Jr., of Louisiana, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Louisiana, vice Donald E. Walter, retired.

Nomination Confirmed

95.5%

75.7%

96.3%

90.2%

84.9%

88: 4

0.115

0.048

(Reed Amdt. No. 27 )

To provide additional amounts for low-income home energy assistance.

Amendment Agreed to

94.6%

92.9%

96.2%

81.2%

90.6%

92: 0

0.013

0.046

(H.R. 2754 As Amended )

A bill making appropriations for energy and water development for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.

Bill Passed

91.9%

99.9%

95.1%

97.4%

88.6%

92: 0

0.013

0.046

(Confirmation R. David Proctor Of Alabama, To be U.S. District Judge )

R. David Proctor, of Alabama, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama.

Nomination Confirmed

91.9%

99.9%

95.1%

97.4%

88.6%

92: 0

0.013

0.046

(Confirmation Sandra J. Feuerstein Of New York To Be U.S. District Judge )

Sandra J. Feuerstein, of New York, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York.

Nomination Confirmed

97.1%

92.9%

99.9%

99.3%

90.6%

94: 0

0.021

0.046

(Confirmation Lonny R. Suko of Washington, To Be U.S. District Judge )

Lonny R. Suko, of Washington, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Washington, vice Wm. Fremming Nielsen, retired.

Nomination Confirmed

94.8%

99.0%

99.3%

90.1%

91.8%

94: 0

0.020

0.045

(S. Res. 71 As Amended )

?

Resolution Agreed to

97.3%

92.9%

96.6%

99.3%

90.7%

94: 0

0.019

0.044

(H.R. 2660 As Amended )

A bill making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.

Bill Passed

97.9%

98.4%

99.0%

94.3%

93.7%

96: 0

0.037

0.043

(Resolution Of Ratification To Accompany Treaty Doc. 108-4 )

Protocols to the North Atlantic Treaty of 1949 on the Accession of Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. These protocols were opened for signature at Brussels on March 26, 2003, and signed that day on behalf of the United States and the other parties to the North Atlantic Treaty

Resolution of Ratification Agreed to

100.0%

100.0%

99.9%

99.8%

95.3%

98: 0

0.149

0.042

(Conference Report on H.R. 2559 )

A bill making appropriations for military construction, family housing, and base realignment and closure for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.

Conference Report Agreed to

97.5%

99.2%

97.7%

97.7%

93.3%

96: 0

0.034

0.041

(Confirmation Richard C. Wesley, Of New York, To Be U.S. Circuit Judge )

Richard C. Wesley, of New York, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit, vice Pierre N. Leval, retired.

An Act to prevent child abduction and the sexual exploitation of children, and for other purposes.

Conference Report Agreed to

100.0%

100.0%

99.9%

99.3%

95.4%

98: 1

0.124

0.041

(S.1050 As Amended )

An original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2004 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.

Bill Passed

99.9%

100.0%

100.0%

99.2%

95.4%

98: 0

0.139

0.041

(Nickles Amdt. No. 1876 )

To express the sense of the Senate that all countries that hold debt from the former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein should be urged to forgive their debt.

Amendment Agreed to

99.9%

100.0%

100.0%

99.7%

95.4%

98: 0

0.136

0.041

(Confirmation William Q. Hayes, of California, To Be U.S. District Judge )

William Q. Hayes, of California, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of California.

Nomination Confirmed

99.9%

100.0%

98.8%

98.2%

95.6%

98: 1

0.110

0.040

(McConnell AMDT. No. 1795 As Modified )

To commend the Armed Forces of the United States in the War on Terrorism.

Amendment Agreed to

97.1%

86.1%

98.9%

99.6%

97.7%

96: 3

0.137

0.037

(Durbin Amdt. No. 1837 )

To ensure that a Federal employee who takes leave without pay in order to perform certain service as a member of the uniformed services or member of the National Guard shall continue to receive pay in an amount which, when taken together with the pay and allowances such individual is receiving for such service, will be no less than the basic pay such individual would then be receiving if no interruption in employment had occurred.

Amendment Agreed to

95.6%

82.7%

98.4%

99.4%

95.4%

94: 2

0.049

0.035

(Grassley Amdt. No. 862 )

In the nature of a substitute.

Amendment Agreed to

21.2%

74.0%

43.6%

5.2%

36.8%

35:60

0.014

0.033

(Feinstein Amdt. No. 843 )

To allow the ethanol mandate in the renewable fuel program to be suspended temporarily if the mandate would harm the economy or environment.

Amendment Rejected

87.5%

96.4%

98.7%

89.2%

87.1%

89: 0

0.004

0.032

(Confirmation of Marian Blank Horn, of Maryland, to be a Judge of The U.S. Court of Federal Claims )

Marian Blank Horn, of Maryland, to be a Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims for a term of fifteen years. (Reappointment)

Nomination Confirmed

91.5%

86.5%

96.4%

98.8%

86.0%

89: 0

0.003

0.031

(Confirmation: Samuel Der-Yeghiayan, Of Illinois, To Be U.S. District Judge )

Samuel Der-Yeghiayan, of Illinois, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, vice Marvin E. Aspen, retired.

Nomination Confirmed

89.6%

91.7%

98.5%

98.0%

92.9%

92: 0

0.005

0.028

(Confirmation J. Daniel Breen, Of Tennessee, To Be U.S. District Judge )

J. Daniel Breen, of Tennessee, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Tennessee, vice Julia Smith Gibbons, elevated.

Nomination Confirmed

95.9%

84.1%

88.6%

99.4%

88.4%

91: 0

0.004

0.027

(Confirmation Larry Alan Burns Of California To Be U.S. District Judge )

Larry Alan Burns, of California, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of California.

Nomination Confirmed

91.9%

99.9%

96.3%

99.2%

90.6%

93: 0

0.005

0.027

(Motion to Disagree To The Amendment Of The House To S.3 )

A bill to prohibit the procedure commonly known as partial-birth abortion.

Motion Agreed to

99.6%

74.7%

87.6%

91.1%

89.4%

91: 3

0.097

0.027

(H. R. 2989 As Amended )

A bill making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation and Treasury, and independent agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.

Bill Passed

92.2%

98.3%

99.0%

99.0%

90.7%

93: 0

0.005

0.026

(Nomination, Theresa Lazar Springmann, of Indiana, to be United States District Judge )

Theresa Lazar Springmann, of Indiana, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Indiana, vice James T. Moody, retired.

Nomination Confirmed

95.0%

91.9%

96.5%

99.2%

90.7%

93: 0

0.005

0.026

(Confirmation Michael W. Mosman, Of Oregon, To Be U.S. District Judge )

Michael W. Mosman, of Oregon, to be United States District Judge for the District of Oregon.

Nomination Confirmed

92.8%

96.6%

99.7%

81.3%

93.0%

93: 0

0.005

0.025

(Confirmation Allyson Duncan Of North Carolina To Be U.S. Circuit Judge )

Allyson K. Duncan, of North Carolina, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit, vice Samuel J. Ervin, III, deceased.

Nomination Confirmed

94.8%

99.0%

99.5%

99.6%

92.9%

95: 0

0.008

0.025

(S. Res. 45 )

?

Resolution Agreed to

92.1%

91.3%

97.7%

97.0%

88.8%

91: 0

0.003

0.025

(Confirmation William D. Quarles, Jr. Of Maryland To Be U.S. District Judge )

William D. Quarles, Jr., of Maryland, to be United States District Judge for the District of Maryland, vice William M. Nickerson, retired.

Nomination Confirmed

92.6%

97.1%

98.7%

98.3%

90.9%

93: 0

0.005

0.025

(S.762, As Amended )

An original bill making supplemental appropriations to support Department of Defense operations in Iraq, Department of Homeland Security, and Related Efforts for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2003, and for other purposes.

Bill Passed

95.1%

98.0%

99.9%

99.3%

93.0%

95: 0

0.008

0.025

(H.R. 2658 As Amended )

A bill making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.

Bill Passed

97.3%

99.9%

99.9%

99.4%

95.3%

97: 0

0.018

0.024

(Confirmation James V. Selna, of California, to be U.S. District Judge )

James V. Selna, of California, to be United States District Judge for the Central District of California, vice J. Spencer Letts, retired.

Nomination Confirmed

97.3%

99.9%

99.9%

99.4%

95.3%

97: 0

0.018

0.024

(H.R. 1307, as Amended )

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a special rule for members of the uniformed services in determining the exclusion of gain from the sale of a principal residence and to restore the tax exempt status of death gratuity payments to members of the uniformed services, and for other purposes.

Bill Passed

97.3%

99.9%

99.9%

99.4%

95.3%

97: 0

0.018

0.024

(S.Con.Res. 30 )

?

Concurrent Resolution Agreed to

97.2%

100.0%

100.0%

99.5%

95.3%

97: 0

0.017

0.023

(Biden Amdt. No. 1190 As Modified )

To express the sense of the Congress that the United States remain engaged in Iraq in order to ensure a peaceful, stable, unified Iraq with a representative government.

Amendment Agreed to

99.1%

95.1%

99.9%

99.7%

95.3%

97: 1

0.133

0.023

(S. 1215 As Amended )

A bill to sanction the ruling Burmese military junta, to strengthen Burma's democratic forces and support and recognize the National League of Democracy as the legitimate representative of the Burmese people, and for other purposes.

Bill Passed

99.9%

93.0%

99.9%

99.5%

95.3%

97: 1

0.129

0.023

(McConnell Amdt. No. 1097 )

To protect seniors who are diagnosed with cancer from high prescription drug costs

Amendment Agreed to

98.5%

96.7%

99.8%

95.4%

95.9%

97: 1

0.046

0.022

(McConnell Amdt. No. 1874 )

To express the Sense of the Senate that the Global War on Terrorism medal should be awarded expeditiously to members of the Armed Forces serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Operation Noble Eagle.

Amendment Agreed to

98.1%

97.6%

99.5%

99.7%

95.4%

97: 0

0.016

0.022

(Confirmation: Edward C. Prado, of Texas, To Be U.S. Circuit Judge )

Edward C. Prado, of Texas, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, vice Robert M. Parker, retired.

Nomination Confirmed

98.1%

97.6%

99.5%

99.9%

95.3%

97: 0

0.015

0.022

(S. 196, as Amended )

A bill to establish a digital and wireless network technology program, and for other purposes.

Bill Passed

97.6%

99.2%

97.6%

97.9%

95.6%

97: 0

0.015

0.021

(Confirmation J. Ronnie Greer, Of Tennessee, To Be U.S. District Judge )

J. Ronnie Greer, of Tennessee, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee, vice Thomas G. Hull, retired.

Nomination Confirmed

97.6%

99.2%

97.6%

97.9%

95.6%

97: 0

0.015

0.021

(Confirmation Mark R. Kravitz, Of Connecticut, To Be U.S. District Judge )

Mark R. Kravitz, of Connecticut, to be United States District Judge for the District of Connecticut, vice Alfred V. Covello, retired.

Nomination Confirmed

100.0%

100.0%

99.9%

100.0%

97.6%

99: 0

0.130

0.021

(Confirmation Gordon England, of Texas, to be Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security )

Gordon England, of Texas, to be Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security. (New Position)

Nomination Confirmed

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

99.9%

97.7%

99: 0

0.128

0.021

(Confirmation Dee D. Drell, of Louisiana, to be U.S. District Judge. )

Dee D. Drell, of Louisiana, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Louisiana, vice F. A. Little, Jr., retired.

Nomination Confirmed

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

99.9%

97.7%

99: 0

0.128

0.021

(Confirmation Richard D. Bennett, of Maryland, to be U.S. District Judge. )

Richard D. Bennett, of Maryland, to be United States District Judge for the District of Maryland, vice Frederic N. Smalkin, retired.

Nomination Confirmed

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

99.9%

97.7%

99: 0

0.128

0.021

(S.Con.Res. 31 )

?

Resolution Agreed to

100.0%

100.0%

99.9%

99.8%

97.7%

99: 0

0.128

0.021

(Confirmation Consuelo Maria Callahan, Of California, To Be U.S. Circuit Judge )

Consuelo Maria Callahan, of California, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, vice Ferdinand F. Fernandez, retired.

Nomination Confirmed

100.0%

100.0%

99.9%

99.8%

97.7%

99: 0

0.128

0.021

(Warner Amdt. No. 826 )

To require the Department of Defense to fully comply with the Competition in Contracting Act for any contract awarded for reconstruction activities in Iraq.

Amendment Agreed to

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

99.7%

97.7%

99: 0

0.123

0.021

(Boxer Amdt. No. 1843 )

To make retroactive the relief of hospitalized members of the uniformed services from the obligation to pay for food or subsistence while hospitalized; and to provide an offset for the additional cost.

Amendment Agreed to

99.2%

94.9%

99.6%

99.9%

100.0%

99: 1

0.112

0.019

(Landrieu Amdt. No. 871 )

To reduce the dependence of the United States on imported petroleum.

Amendment Agreed to

99.3%

94.7%

100.0%

99.9%

100.0%

99: 1

0.111

0.019

(Lincoln Amdt. No. 431 )

To express the sense of the Senate regarding extending the $1,000 child credit for three additional years (2011-2013).

Amendment Agreed to

78.3%

91.3%

97.4%

87.8%

80.2%

82: 0

0.001

0.018

(Confirmation Margret Catherine Rodgers, Of Florida, To Be U.S. District Judge )

Margaret Catharine Rodgers, of Florida, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Florida.

Nomination Confirmed

97.3%

100.0%

100.0%

99.9%

99.9%

99: 0

0.087

0.018

(S.Res. 95 )

?

Resolution Agreed to

92.4%

97.8%

99.4%

99.2%

95.4%

95: 0

0.003

0.015

(Confirmation Frank Montalvo, of Texas, To Be U.S. District Judge )

Frank Montalvo, of Texas, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Texas, vice a new position created by Public Law 107-273, approved November 2, 2002.

Nomination Confirmed

94.5%

99.9%

99.8%

99.3%

97.6%

97: 0

0.007

0.015

(Cochran Amdt. No. 369 )

To make additional funds available for certain homeland security needs.

Amendment Agreed to

96.1%

81.5%

99.2%

99.3%

93.0%

93: 2

0.048

0.013

(Daschle Amdt. No. 1269 )

To provide National Guard and Reserve forces access to TRICARE.

Amendment Agreed to

86.9%

98.4%

97.4%

97.4%

88.3%

90: 0

0.001

0.013

(S. 504 as amended )

A bill to establish academies for teachers and students of American history and civics and a national alliance of teachers of American history and civics, and for other purposes.

Bill Passed

93.3%

89.3%

98.4%

97.7%

90.6%

92: 4

0.147

0.011

(Bingaman Amdt. No. 1740 )

To ban commercial advertising on the National Mall.

Amendment Agreed to

94.7%

85.8%

99.3%

97.9%

92.9%

93: 1

0.021

0.008

(H. R. 2673 As Amended )

A bill making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.

A bill making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.

Bill Passed

96.3%

88.1%

99.9%

99.2%

93.0%

94: 1

0.030

0.006

(H.R. 2330 )

A bill to sanction the ruling Burmese military junta, to strengthen Burma's democratic forces and support and recognize the National League of Democracy as the legitimate representative of the Burmese people, and for other purposes.

Bill Passed

94.5%

99.9%

99.9%

89.9%

96.4%

96: 1

0.040

0.006

(Specter Amdt. No. 401 )

To increase discretionary health spending for fiscal year 2004 by $2,800,000,000 and make an offsetting reduction in overall administrative expenses.

Amendment Agreed to

23.2%

64.4%

66.4%

9.8%

40.7%

37:58

0.002

0.005

(Bingaman Amdt. No. 851 As Modified )

To authorize the Secretary of Energy to waive the ethanol mandate on the East and West Coast in the event of a significant price increase or supply interruption.

Amendment Rejected

96.4%

87.7%

98.6%

99.7%

93.0%

94: 3

0.148

0.005

(Boxer Amdt. No. 2025 )

To enact the Firefighters Medical Monitoring Act.

Amendment Agreed to

94.4%

100.0%

99.5%

99.2%

95.4%

96: 0

0.000

0.004

(James I. Cohn, of Florida, To Be U.S. District Judge )

James I. Cohn, of Florida, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Florida, vice a new position created by Public Law 107-273, approved November 2, 2002.

Nomination Confirmed

97.3%

99.9%

98.7%

97.9%

97.9%

98: 2

0.000

0.001

(Bunning Amdt. No. 589 )

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the 1993 income tax increase on Social Security benefits.

Amendment Agreed to

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100: 0

0.000

0.000

(Landrieu Amdt. No. 429 )

To provide additional pay and benefits for active duty, guard, and reserve forces, such as augmenting Imminent Danger Pay and Family Separation allowance, and for modernization of equipment, weapons, and technology needs of the National Guard and Reserves in recognition of those currently involved in conflict Operations and the needs of their family members left behind.